[Zope-Coders] Heads up - setup.py

[Matt Behrens]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:43:49AM -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote:

> I think you're suggesting moving setup.py to <zope>/lib/python then 
> creating a small setup.py in <zope> that helps the user a little.  That 
> would be good IMHO.  The setup.py in <zope> might be a simple wrapper 
> around setup.py in <zope>/lib/python, with the exception that when you 
> invoke it with the single argument "install", it tells you that an 
> install location is required.

Why not just give the root setup.py that capability?  We're already
overridden parts of distutils to support data file installs...