Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 09:41 PM 8/9/2005 +0200, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote: > >>I just checked out the new version but... >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/setuptools/python-setuptools-0.6a1$ python >>ez_setup.py -d >>../tmp graph > > > Okay, I figured out why I can't reproduce this; when working from the CVS > version you need to use "setup.py develop" or "setup.py install" or even > "setup.py egg_info" or "setup.py test" in order to *build& setuptools > before attempting to use it. Otherwise you don't have a PKG-INFO file, and > thus don't have a valid egg yet. > > I'll have to update the documentation to reflect that necessary step.
Wouldn't it be better to detect that PKG-INFO is missing, and give an error that suggests the package has not been properly build with egg_info? I think as a general rule confusing error messages should be fixed with better error messages, not documentation. -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
