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[14:35:14] <zooko> http://zooko.com/log-2007.html#d2007-04-27-setuptools_p_GNU_stow
[17:04:30] <pje> FYI, zooko, with a slight change to your directions they'll work with distutils as well as setuptools
[17:04:38] <pje> instead of: ./setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --prefix= --root=$DESIREDLOCATION
[17:04:47] <pje> use: ./setup.py install --prefix= --root=$DESIREDLOCATION
[17:05:03] <pje> setuptools automatically does the --svem thing if you use --root
[17:58:28] <zooko> pje: !  Great!  Thanks.
[17:59:03] <zooko> My partner Brian Warner, when I informed him of this, said that he thought --root was for chroot environments and --prefix was for what we want, and he was irritated when he figured out that setuptools used "--root" to mean this.
[18:08:03] <zooko> Brian writes: "Huh.  *both* prefix and root"
[18:08:29] <zooko> I write: "--root triggers the behavior that we want, but with chroot semantics. --prefix='' makes the chroot act like the install we want".
[18:08:35] <zooko> He writes: "Ah."
[18:09:18] <zooko> BTW, until just now he was using "--root=" and then having a separate scripted step to mv $prefix/usr/* to $prefix/.
[18:33:41] <pje> setuptools, btw, isn't what defines --root and --prefix; those are distutils options, and setuptools inherits their meaning.
[18:33:58] <pje> It just also activates backward-compatibility mode when you use --root.
[18:56:20] <zooko> But the meaning has changed from distutils --prefix to setuptools --prefix.
[18:56:33] <zooko> That's what tripped Brian and I up, repeatedly, for weeks, until today.
[18:56:52] <zooko> No that'
[18:56:54] <zooko> s not true.
[18:57:05] <zooko> It was that we weren't in backwards-compatibility mode that tripped us up.
[18:57:23] <zooko> The slightly different semantics of distutils --prefix and setuptools --prefix is only a minor irritant.
[18:57:35] <zooko> Not a stumbling block.  Since it is obvious how to patch around it once you see it./
[18:57:52] <zooko> Unlike the question of "How do I make this be backwards compatible?", which is more of a head-scratcher.
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