We don't have the exact versions of setuptools or pip that are problematic. If you have trouble reproducing this, we can ask our user for clarification. :)
Thanks for the help! On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote: > My guess would be that something is setting permissions for the current > user, and these installs were done by an admin user who is not the current > user. This will result in explicit permissions on the file that may deny > read access. > > I'll have to confirm tomorrow. Do you have the exact versions of setuptools > and pip that are problematic? (My guess is that it won't matter. The code > has probably been in there for a while if I'm right.) > > Cheers, > Steve > > To-posted from my Windows Phone > ________________________________ > From: Ian Cordasco > Sent: 5/5/2014 17:27 > To: Distutils list > Subject: [Distutils] Windows 8 pkg_resources permissions bug > > Hey all, > > I searched the issues on the setuptools repository but I couldn't find > any that seemed relevant to what a user of Flake8 has run into: > https://bitbucket.org/tarek/flake8/issue/142/installation-on-windows-8-permissions > > It seems that installing something that relies on pkg_resources to > load plugins will cause errors on Windows 8. Does anyone have any > insight? Is this actually a bug? Are we just using pkg_resources > incorrectly? > > Thanks in advance, > Ian > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
