I poked around some more, and found that while Nevow is now ok, the python-simplejson package is not. Our tahoe "setup.py --develop" process fails to notice that simplejson is already installed, and downloads+builds a new copy.
python-simplejson uses python-support instead of pycentral. The .egg-info/ directory is in a directory that is on sys.path: /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/ . While experimenting, I noticed that moving the .egg-info/ directory earlier in sys.path (to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/) was sufficient to make setuptools correctly notice simplejson and refrain from downloading+building it during our tahoe "--develop" step. So my hypothesis is that setuptools is not correctly handling the later elements of sys.path, perhaps because they are added by a site.py or *.pth file. Switching a package to use pycentral happens to fix the problem, because pycentral puts .egg-info files in the normal /usr/lib directory. python-support packages remain vulnerable to this apparent bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
