2009/10/3 Ned Deily <[email protected]>: > I'm afraid there is going to be a small deluge of very confused users > who will end up needing to install Distribute but only when they > eventually figure out why some packages with C extensions mysteriously > no longer install after they upgrade to python 2.6.3. For example, > following the package instructions to use setuptools easy_install, an > easy_install lxml fails with 2.6.3 with the very cryptic: > > File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/setuptools/command/build_ext.py", > line 85, in get_ext_filename KeyError: 'etree' > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1512530/cant-install-lxml-python-2-6-3 > -osx-10-6-snow-leopard > > Appscript is another package that fails similarly. There must be others.
I can confirm this. It seems to be packages that use c-extensions. zope.interface also breaks. > $ curl -O http://nightly.ziade.org/distribute_setup.py > $ python distribute_setup.py Distribute doesn't break, though, so "sudo easy_install Distribute" seems to be enough. :-) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
