On 2/5/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > [snip] > > Twisted does some interesting mangling of the build_ext process in > > order to > > support optional extensions, that are only determined at build > > time. I've > > been meaning to add a facility to do this in setuptools, but it's > > not done > > yet, and in any case Twisted would have to *use* that facility in > > order for > > it to work. I'm afraid Twisted isn't supportable by easy_install > > at the > > present time. > > Not only that, but the top-level script for Twisted isn't distutils > based. It is a script that invokes several setup.py files for each > of the subprojects if given "build" or "install" as options, and > otherwise takes totally different arguments. > > Even if it did install with easy_install it would be a little > misleading since Twisted requires Zope.Interface and has a bunch of > extras (like SSL or serial support). Twisted really could use a good > refactor to support setuptools, but the core team isn't interested in > doing that. > > I believe Zope.Interface is not compatible with setuptools also. I'm > not sure why... I think it's the distribution name or something. >
That's more or less what I figured. I mostly wanted to post the error message because it's non-obvious what went wrong, and wanted to make sure someone in the know saw it. I think I still remember how to install packages the old fashioned way, something or other about 'setup.py install' :) Jay P. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig