This is really a bug with setuptools. It seems that they do not bother building older versions of setuptools against newer versions of Python. However, when the protobuf package was originally created, 0.6c8 was the newest version of setuptools (and Python 2.6 didn't exists yet, I suppose). As a result, anyone trying to install protobuf with newer version of Python gets this error. If you install setuptools manually before running setup.py, it should work -- in this case it should not try to download the package itself.
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:01 AM, OJW <ojwli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > In protobuf-2.0.3\python, when using python 2.6, the setup.py program > attempts to download: > > http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.6.egg > > However, that location contains only setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg > > (ez_setup.py, DEFAULT_VERSION) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
