[PATCH] run-tests: define more arguments when building with distutils

[Martin Geisler]

Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr at gmail.com> writes:

> On 18 Nov 2009, at 21:09, Martin Geisler wrote:
>
>> Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 18 Nov 2009, at 20:38, Martin Geisler wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> # HG changeset patch
>>>>> # User Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr at gmail.com>
>>>>> # Date 1258460698 -3600
>>>>> # Node ID 55d63ff208aaeb20a078878c4cd2e572eae771b4
>>>>> # Parent  1da7b76d6adc13f0823ce819fa53ce7c7f4cfc79
>>>>> run-tests: define more arguments when building with distutils.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the patch. I pushed a smaller version where we only set
>>>> --home since --install-data is overridden anyway in our setup.py.
>>> 
>>> Sure, it was mainly with some other patches of mine in thought. Should
>>> Mercurial actually start using install_data, it should be set there as
>>> well.
>> 
>> But is --install-data mutually exclusive with some other option in the
>> same way that --prefix and --home are mutually exclusive?
>
> Good point; it isn't AFAIK. However, we might want to set all known
> options explicitly: users might have one of the set to an absolute
> path.

I think we should guard against that when we meet such a user/developer.
I'm happy about the --home patch, for this is something I've had
problems with myself. But I'll like to wait with the other more
hypothetical problems.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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