On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:51:31AM +0100, John Pinner wrote: > I strongly advise not using easy_install, it's awful. > > Yes, because it's trying to solve the problems of package management on > systems without a'proper' package manager, it compromises those systems > with one.
Well, I don't know about that, but my experience is that it just flat-out doesn't work. For example, the MySQL<->Python connector has now unfortunately changed to using setuptools, which in its infinite wisdom decides to install it as a "Zip Egg" - which promptly fails to work at all since you can't load a .so file from a zip. Even when you manage to force it to not break things like that, it for some benighted reason installs every package in a different subdirectory (even though packages are already subdirectories!), and your Python sys.path gets ridiculously huge. _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
