On 30/01/10 13:12, Ben Finney wrote:
Guy Hulbert<gwhulbert@eol.ca> writes:On Sat, 2010-30-01 at 15:42 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:If the package is designed to be installed by distutils, it seems obtuse to expect it to work without using distutils.It is useful to be able to run a package without installing it for development and testing.Right. AFAIK there's no way to do that with Distutils (yet). That is the purpose (IIUC) for the ‘develop’ command in Setuptools: to make the package available for Python in situ.
emesene uses distutils and you can run it without installing it. Maybe it doesn't use it very well though...
Emilio