On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Sijo Jose <mailtosijoj...@gmail.com> wrote: > The language-check (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/language-check)library has > the dependency of '3to2' in python 2.7, > In a virtualenv it works fine with pip,that is > > pip install 3to2 > pip install language-check > > > But its failing with easy_install in venv > > easy_install 3to2 > easy_install language-check (It fails) > > Due to this I'm not able to build my project using setuptools.
After trying it myself and looking at the resulting traceback, I see what's going on here. language-check performs some extensive shenanigans to run 3to2 on its code, and somewhere along the line it assumes that 3to2 is installed in a directory. However when you install it with easy_install, it is installed as an egg by default. And since it is marked zip-safe it's installed as a zipped egg file instead of a directory. My recommendation for installing your package is to run `pip install .`, rather than `./setup.py install`, which there is a movement to get away from. Only installing with pip will get you out of a lot of trouble you might run into with easy_install. If you *must* use easy_install run it with -Z, at least when installing 3to2, to make sure it's installed unzipped. You might also raise the issue with the developers of language-check since this is a bug in their setup.py. Best, Erik _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
