Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 10:06 AM 10/8/2007 +0300, Lauri Hallila wrote: >> On 10/8/07, Lauri Hallila >> <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I noticed a small problem in setuptools... workingenv (version >> 0.6.5-py2.4), in some instances, adds a comment-line "# Duplicating >> setuptools' site.py..." into the beginning of site.py (workingenv.py >> , line 1214). Problem is that easy_install.py checks if the existing >> file site.py starts with "def __boot():", and if it doesn't, it >> raises an error. >> >> I fixed the problem in my own environment by skipping empty and >> comment-lines in easy_install.py (fixed file attached). >> >> I just thought to inform you of the problem... feel free to take my >> fix into setuptools if you like my way to fix the problem. > > Unless you're on a Mac, you should probably upgrade from workingenv > to virtualenv: > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/ > > Virtualenv does not patch setuptools, and so can't have this problem.
Yeah, it's this problem in particular that became basically insurmountable. Which seems odd -- it doesn't look like a hard problem. But it was very hard. It will also work on a Mac if you use a custom-built Python. -- Ian Bicking : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://blog.ianbicking.org : Write code, do good : http://topp.openplans.org/careers _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
