cd bento; python setup.py install --user gives an error

[cdeil]

It seems the --user option to install Bento is broken.

http://cournape.github.io/Bento/html/install.html#setuptools-based-installation-deprecated

$ python setup.py install --user
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: option --user not recognized

[cdeil]

Please also document how to install Bento in the site-packages that --user refers to with setuptools, e.g. here:
http://cournape.github.io/Bento/html/install.html#bento-based-installer

[rgommers]

Maybe setup.py is not supported at all anymore? http://cournape.github.io/Bento/html/install.html says it's deprecated.

[cdeil]

I don't want to install Python packages into the system site-packages, only in my home directory.
And the recommended ./bentomaker install doesn't accept a --user option and it's not clear to me from the docs if there is an equivalent option.

If python setup.py install is deprecated it should still work, but it doesn't.

It's pretty sad that a Python package that's supposed to help with installation of other Python packages can't make it's own installation simple.

If this project is completely unmaintained at the moment, maybe best to say so and not point people to it from the numpy, scipy and scikit-image build instructions?

[rgommers]

Agreed that that should be possible. @cournape how do you want to handle this? I assume python setup.py install --user should be made to work (again), so pip can be used?

[rgommers]

Can be made to work at the moment with python configure --sitedir=path/to/local/sitedir I believe. But pip doesn't know about that.

[cdeil]

I saw that Bento has a bentomaker configure --prefix option.

But that's much less convenient than a --user option ... make me manually figure out where the site-packages in my home folder is first ... why?

[rgommers]

Agreed, a lot less convenient. This is similar to how you build Python, not a Python package. Need @cournape to explain this one.