On 2/14/07, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > More information about *how* the installation failed would be useful for > > package authors to see at a glance what's wrong. Right now, it's too easy > > to dismiss it as a peculiarity of your installation. Being able to click > > through and see the log/tracebacks would probably make it more likely that > > an author spots the problem(s). > > Looks like it's in there, but two links away, and the installation logs > specifically are buried in the rest of the logs. Also the logs are > served up as a Python script or something, not text/plain. Ideally the > logs would be HTML with anchors, and then you could just add a link on > the easy_installability to package_log_uri#installability.
Good idea. I will have to tweak Cheesecake output a bit, but it is certainly possible. I will let the list know when I finish the implementation. Cheers, mk _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
