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| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/easy_install.txt | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt index e6d2a678..608a278e 100644 --- a/CHANGES.txt +++ b/CHANGES.txt @@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ CHANGES * Issue 80: test_develop now works with Python 3.1 * Issue 93: upload_docs now works if there is an empty sub-directory. * Issue 70: exec bit on non-exec files -* Issue 99: now easy_install doesn't usesa "setup.cfg" if any exists in - the working directory. +* Issue 99: now the standalone easy_install command doesn't uses a + "setup.cfg" if any exists in the working directory. It will use it + only if triggered by ``install_requires`` from a setup.py call + (install, develop, etc). ----- 0.6.8 diff --git a/docs/easy_install.txt b/docs/easy_install.txt index 5fa83542..3e39b811 100644 --- a/docs/easy_install.txt +++ b/docs/easy_install.txt @@ -628,6 +628,9 @@ until and unless you override them explicitly in an ``[easy_install]`` section. For more information, see also the current Python documentation on the `use and location of distutils configuration files <http://docs.python.org/inst/config-syntax.html>`_. +Notice that ``easy_install`` will use the ``setup.cfg`` from the current +working directory only if it was triggered from ``setup.py`` through the +``install_requires`` option. The standalone command will not use that file. Command-Line Options -------------------- @@ -904,7 +907,7 @@ Command-Line Options projects, not in-development ones, because such projects may not have a currently-valid version number. So, it usually only installs them when their ``setup.py`` directory is explicitly passed on the command line. - + However, if this option is used, then any in-development projects that were installed using the ``setup.py develop`` command, will be used to build eggs, effectively upgrading the "in-development" project to a snapshot @@ -1257,7 +1260,7 @@ History installed using ``setup.py develop``. * Fixed not HTML-decoding URLs scraped from web pages - + 0.6c5 * Fixed ``.dll`` files on Cygwin not having executable permisions when an egg is installed unzipped. |