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| -rwxr-xr-x | EasyInstall.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | setuptools/command/easy_install.py | 8 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/EasyInstall.txt b/EasyInstall.txt index d2806841..236210c6 100755 --- a/EasyInstall.txt +++ b/EasyInstall.txt @@ -685,6 +685,11 @@ Command-Line Options directory, thereby allowing individual users to install their own Python packages via EasyInstall. +``--no-deps, -N`` (New in 0.6a6) + Don't install any dependencies. This is intended as a convenience for + tools that wrap eggs in a platform-specific packaging system. (We don't + recommend that you use it for anything else.) + Non-Root Installation --------------------- @@ -714,7 +719,11 @@ now or in the future.) If you are on a Linux, BSD, Cygwin, or other similar Unix-like operating system, you should create a ``~/lib/python2.x/site-packages`` directory -instead. You will need to know your Python version's ``sys.prefix`` and +instead. (Note: Ian Bicking has created a script that can automate most of the +process that follows; see http://svn.colorstudy.com/home/ianb/non_root_python.py +for details.) + +You will need to know your Python version's ``sys.prefix`` and ``sys.exec_prefix``, which you can find out by running:: python -c "import sys; print sys.prefix; print sys.exec_prefix" @@ -732,7 +741,7 @@ libraries:: rm ~/lib/python2.4/site-packages mkdir ~/lib/python2.4/site-packages ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/* ~/lib/python2.4/site-packages - mkdir ~/include/python2.4 + mkdir -p ~/include/python2.4 ln -s /usr/local/include/python2.4/* ~/include/python2.4 If your ``sys.exec_prefix`` was different from your ``sys.prefix``, you will @@ -768,15 +777,8 @@ Known Issues * There's no automatic retry for borked Sourceforge mirrors, which can easily time out or be missing a file. - * Wrapping ``easy_install.py`` with the Exemaker utility may cause failures - when building packages that want to compile themselves with optimization - enabled. This is because Exemaker sets ``sys.executable`` to point to the - ``easy_install`` wrapper, instead of to the Python executable, and the - ``distutils.util.byte_compile()`` function expects to be able to invoke - ``sys.executable`` to run a short Python script. Unfortunately, this can't - be directly fixed by EasyInstall; it has to be fixed in the distutils or - in Exemaker. So, don't use Exemaker to wrap ``easy_install.py``, or at any - rate don't expect it to work with all packages. +0.6a6 + * Added ``--no-deps`` option. 0.6a3 * Improved error message when trying to use old ways of running diff --git a/setuptools/command/easy_install.py b/setuptools/command/easy_install.py index 302a28cf..b32be711 100755 --- a/setuptools/command/easy_install.py +++ b/setuptools/command/easy_install.py @@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ class easy_install(Command): ('always-unzip', 'Z', "don't install as a zipfile, no matter what"), ('site-dirs=','S',"list of directories where .pth files work"), ('editable', 'e', "Install specified packages in editable form"), + ('no-deps', 'N', "don't install dependencies"), ] - boolean_options = [ 'zip-ok', 'multi-version', 'exclude-scripts', 'upgrade', 'always-copy', 'delete-conflicting', 'ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk', 'editable', + 'no-deps', ] - negative_opt = {'always-unzip': 'zip-ok'} create_index = PackageIndex @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ class easy_install(Command): self.args = None self.optimize = self.record = None self.upgrade = self.always_copy = self.multi_version = None - self.editable = None + self.editable = self.no_deps = None self.root = None # Options not specifiable via command line @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ class easy_install(Command): for link in self.find_links: self.package_index.scan_url(link) for spec in self.args: - self.easy_install(spec, True) + self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps) if self.record: outputs = self.outputs if self.root: # strip any package prefix |