At 01:03 PM 8/10/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: >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?
It's actually there, but it's using AttributeError currently; I'll change it to a ValueError so it doesn't get masked. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
