From ca0105cf105e6d8a6c3e552c82650de93dbe13b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tarek Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:07:26 +0100 Subject: more info about easy_install and setup.cfg refs #99 --HG-- branch : distribute extra : rebase_source : 390f6492ac8aee653132791ac32f90bc1434433a --- docs/easy_install.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') 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 `_. +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. -- cgit v1.2.3