[IronPython] E: Default install location and site-packages

[Michael Foord]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>   
>> Well, fair enough [1]. :-)
>>
>> Except it may *still* leave distutils / package management basically
>> unusable for many people. That would still seem to be bad. I'd like to
>> work on making Distribute (the successor to setuptools) compatible with
>> IronPython but it is going to require a working distutils system.
>>
>> Can PEP 370 style site-packages be made the default for IronPython?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> [1] I don't have this problem on the Mac. I have a system installed
>> Python that I must sudo to modify and a user installed one that I don't.
>> Even a user installed IronPython wouldn't have write permissions in the
>> normal site-packages folder on Windows, right?
>>     
>
> >From the IronPython side of things I think we should make our installer
> have an option to install into a per-user directory.  That is certainly
> missing today and would allow us to even have an elevation free installer
> (although we couldn't ngen in that case but we might be able to offer the
> user an opportunity to ngen even if they do a per-user install if they're
> willing to elevate).
>
> Do you have an idea of how to go about making it the default?  It looks
> like PEP 370 style site-packages work today - although there might be 
> some tweaking we want to do.  It looks like if you create 
> %APPDATA%\Python\Python26\site-packages that site.py will pick it up even 
> on IronPython.  The only downside to this seems to  be that we share the 
> same directory as CPython per-user site packages.  But I'm not sure how
> we would make that the default location to install to.
>
>   
I'll look into this with the distutils guys.

> We should probably make the "Python" part of the directory be Python, 
> IronPython, Jython, etc... depending upon what implementation you're
> running on.
>   

Yes, agreed - IronPython should have a separate user site-packages from 
CPython.

Michael

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