[issue7299] setup.py install doesn't honor PYTHONUSERBASE

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7299] setup.py install doesn't honor PYTHONUSERBASE

Éric Araujo added the comment: Closing in two weeks if there is no additional information. Please reopen if needed. -- status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7299] setup.py install doesn't honor PYTHONUSERBASE

Éric Araujo added the comment: Hello It seems to me that your patch doesn’t fix a bug but adds a feature. PEP 370 says that “distutils.command.install (setup.py install) gets a new argument --user to install packages in the user site directory”, not that the presence of the envvar should tri

[issue7299] setup.py install doesn't honor PYTHONUSERBASE

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: install_userbase is using USER_BASE which is in site.py. This value is initialized when Python starts, and does check for PYTHONUSERBASE in the environ. (if ENABLE_USER_SITE is true) If this doesn't happen, this is most likely because the user can't write to its

[issue7299] setup.py install doesn't honor PYTHONUSERBASE

New submission from Matthias Klose : Got an user report about setup.py install not honoring PYTHONUSERBASE. Is this by design? If not, the attached patch seems to implement this functionality. -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils files: userbase.diff keywords: patch, patch messages: