setup.py (was Re: [Zope-Coders] RE: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/doc - INSTALL.txt:1.32)

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Thu, 30 May 2002 13:38:56 -0400


Matt Behrens wrote:
>>>Matt Behrens is working on a replacement, although I'm not sure what
>>>his enhancements are about.
>>
>>Matt, can you clarify this?
> 
> 
> I have a mammoth setup.py, starting from yours but largely rewritten, in
> zigg_unix-install-control-config-branch.  It is capable of (with
> appropriate command line flags) installing an entire Zope distribution.
>  The Makefile in that branch makes use of this.

Does it install all of Zope's dozens of packages in site-packages, then? 
  Is that what we want?

Alternatively, does "python setup.py build_ext -i" work?  Does it put 
the extensions in the right place?  That would be the ideal replacement 
for "python wo_pcgi.py".

Shane