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It's not supposed to, it's just the current behavior which, as Pierre 
suggested, can be changed, and I would like to give my +1 for it. I 
think it's a good idea.

El 20/01/12 18:11, Steve escribiÃ³:
> So a bootstrapped devel version of spyder is supposed to use the
> default ini (same as installed version)?
>
> On Jan 20, 4:04 pm, Pierre Raybaut<pierre.rayb...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Le 20 janv. 2012 Ã  00:18, Steve<steve.f.thomp...@gmail.com>  a Ã©crit :
>>
>>> After install you will see it creates three separate folders:
>>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\spyder
>>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\spyderlib
>>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\spyderplugins
>> Only the two last ones are really installed by Spyder itself. The
>> first one is created by the Spyder's Python(x,y) Windows installer and
>> has absolutely no direct effect on the Python installation (files
>> related to the Python(x,y) installer are stored there: uninstaller
>> program, installation log, ...).
>>
>>> This structure pretty much forces development to be done away from the
>>> normal spyder paths.
>>> It just seems like it would be cleaner if it were all located under
>>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\spyder
>> The current situation is clean -- it is very common (and totally
>> admitted and handled by official deployment tools like  distutils) for
>> Python libraries to have more than one package inside them (meaning
>> more than one folder installed in site-packages). Two seems quite
>> reasonable.
>>
>>> Putting all the files in the one directory could have the side effect
>>> of letting development be done in the folder under site-packages
>>> instead of somewhere else.
>> Well, developing directly in the site-packages directory is clearly
>> not a good practice. This directory is only intended as a target
>> folder for installing libraries, not for developing code. For this,
>> you would have to create a development folder elsewhere (on Windows,
>> preferably outside C:\Python27) and add it to your PYTHONPATH user
>> environment variable. Or, as suggested Anatoly, you may directly run
>> Spyder's development version through the bootstrap script without
>> having to change your environment variables.
>>
>>> I do know that you can bootstrap spyder from the development
>>> directory.  I don't, however, know how to specify an ini.  It doesn't
>>> seem to use the default %USERPROFILE%/.spyder2/.spyder.ini file.  Is
>>> that by design or coincidence?  I dropped a spyder.ini into my devel
>>> directory but spyder seemed to ignore it.
>> AFAIK, Spyder is using the ini located in user's home directory.
>>
>> If this is an issue with the ini file being the same with the stable
>> release and the development release, then this is another problem.
>> Note that it would be a good idea to create a preference directory
>> specific to the development version.
>>
>> In the meantime, you may copy the whole directory and restore it later
>> if you want to backup your whole configuration. Note that there is
>> also the "session" open/save feature which should do exactly the same
>> thing.
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>>> On Jan 19, 4:34 pm, anatoly techtonik<techto...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> FYI, it is easier for development to just run Spyder from source - without
>>>> placing it into site-packages.
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