On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: > I wasn't sure, so I did it to be safe. It shouldn't effect anything. > >>> except it doesn't work when doing the sandbox install, and the >>> exception comes during the sandbox phase. I'm not sure why a >>> sandbox installation is happening (zip_safe is explicitly set to >>> False)? >> easy_install runs all setup scripts in a sandbox, since it has no >> way of knowing whether a given script is "safe" until it actually >> runs it in the sandbox. Easier to ask forgiveness than >> permission, you might say. :) > > But apparently that import doesn't work when in the sandbox. Why > test it when setup() says explicitly that it isn't safe?
Even if it doesn't 'test' it, it would still need a sandbox to stick the svn checkout in while it builds and installs it, no? (Not that I have any clue how setuptools works, but this is just a guess) - Ben _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
