tools to install not in python tree?

[commander_coder]

Hello,

I have some materials for a project that I am working on that I keep
in a source code control system (svn now, but I'm experimenting with
mercurial). I want to install these things from the repository, but
not into site-packages/ as Distutils wants to do.

For instance there are some administrative scripts I want to put in ~/
admin/ and some programs that I want in ~/public_html/ . I also
want to run some post-install routines (for instance, reset the
database tables on my development machine). So I'm looking for a tool
to take things from a repository and install them into place.
Something like:
install_from_repository.py -version "1.2.7"
if there is a bug in 1.2.7 that I need to work on.

Some of the things that I am looking for are like what setup.py does
(for instance, changing the #! line on scripts or having a
convenient .cfg file). But as I understand it setup only targets
installing below sys.prefix; is that right?

I can write routines for myself but other people must need to do these
things also and a tested solution is obviously better. Is there such
a tool?

Thanks for any help,
Jim

[Miki]

Hello Jim,

I have some materials for a project that I am working on that I keep
in a source code control system (svn now, but I'm experimenting with
mercurial). *I want to install these things from the repository, but
not into site-packages/ as Distutils wants to do.

For instance there are some administrative scripts I want to put in ~/
admin/ *and some programs that I want in ~/public_html/ . * I also
want to run some post-install routines (for instance, reset the
database tables on my development machine). *So I'm looking for a tool
to take things from a repository and install them into place.
Something like:
* install_from_repository.py -version "1.2.7"
if there is a bug in 1.2.7 that I need to work on.

Some of the things that I am looking for are like what setup.py does
(for instance, changing the #! line on scripts or having a
convenient .cfg file). *But as I understand it setup only targets
installing below sys.prefix; is that right?

I can write routines for myself but other people must need to do these
things also and a tested solution is obviously better. *Is there such
a tool?

Have a look at http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html,
specially http://docs.python.org/dist/node13.html and
http://docs.python.org/inst/alt-install-windows.html

HTH,
--
Miki <mi*********@gmail.com>
http://pythonwise.blogspot.com

[Diez B. Roggisch]

co*************@hotmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I have some materials for a project that I am working on that I keep
in a source code control system (svn now, but I'm experimenting with
mercurial). I want to install these things from the repository, but
not into site-packages/ as Distutils wants to do.

For instance there are some administrative scripts I want to put in ~/
admin/ and some programs that I want in ~/public_html/ . I also
want to run some post-install routines (for instance, reset the
database tables on my development machine). So I'm looking for a tool
to take things from a repository and install them into place.
Something like:
install_from_repository.py -version "1.2.7"
if there is a bug in 1.2.7 that I need to work on.

Some of the things that I am looking for are like what setup.py does
(for instance, changing the #! line on scripts or having a
convenient .cfg file). But as I understand it setup only targets
installing below sys.prefix; is that right?

You can use setuptools. And it will install to any path available on
sys.path. So if you define PYTHONPATH pointing to some folder, you can use
setuptools to install the code (eggs) as well as create script
entry-points, so if the same path is part of PATH they will become
available on the command line.

Diez

[commander_coder]

Thank you for the helpful replies. I shall check out the links. (I
looked at some setup.py's but mxBase was not among them.)

Regards,
Jim