We've gotten a number of problem reports from people trying to install our egg releases where there doesn't seem to be enough information being output to the console to really debug the problem. Here's an illustrating log taken from a user's report:
======= C:\Documents and Settings\Gary>easy_install -f http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/windows/xp ets Searching for ets Reading http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/windows/xp Best match: ets 2.5b2 Downloading http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/windows/xp/ets-2.5b2-py2.5.egg Processing ets-2.5b2-py2.5.egg Moving ets-2.5b2-py2.5.egg to c:\python25\lib\site-packages Adding ets 2.5b2 to easy-install.pth file Installed c:\python25\lib\site-packages\ets-2.5b2-py2.5.egg Reading http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/source Reading http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/source/unstable Processing dependencies for ets Searching for wx==2.6 Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/wx/ Couldn't find index page for 'wx' (maybe misspelled?) Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while) Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/ No local packages or download links found for wx==2.6 error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse ('wx==2.6') ======= I've verified that our 'ets' egg does not even mention 'wx' in its setup.py so something else on this user's system must be requiring it, right? But there's no information here about where the requirement came from. In fact the situation is even worse than that because easy_install outputs the line about processing dependencies for ets, but the next step is about some other egg's dependencies and not one of the 20+ dependencies actually listed in the 'ets' egg. Can easy_install be updated to inform the user of which egg, or the first one if there are many of them, that generated the requirement on each thing it is trying to install? I'm thinking of a change in the line that looks like: Searching for wx==2.6 to something like Searching for wx==2.6 (required by foo.bar-1.0) It also seems like the error line should indicate which egg generated the requirement for 'wx==2.6', right? -- Dave _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
