[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-29 Thread Kevin Dangoor
On Aug 27, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > BTW, the tarball for 0.9a9 is really good for me as a package > maintainer > now, thanks for having taken our comments into account! The only > thing I > missed were the docs, which I then grabbed from 0.9a8's one. The website has b

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-29 Thread Krys
Karl Guertin wrote: > > I've had to do this. The difficult part is installing setuptools. > I don't know if it is commonly known or not, so I'll mention it, but setuptools can be downloaded and installed like a regular (old style) python package ("python setup.py install"), just grab the zip file

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:56:08 -0400 Kevin Dangoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > On Aug 26, 2006, at 1:57 AM, isaac wrote: > > > The point is, we need something like that for TG (perhaps call it > > "Flywheel" or "Axle"?). Reducing barriers for new people to get > > started (and making it eas

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-26 Thread Kevin Dangoor
On Aug 26, 2006, at 1:57 AM, isaac wrote: > The point is, we need something like that for TG (perhaps call it > "Flywheel" or "Axle"?). Reducing barriers for new people to get > started (and making it easier on the experts) is a good thing. It > wouldn't make sense to do before TG 1.0 is ready, b

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-25 Thread isaac
On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:01 PM, John M Camara wrote: > Kevin and other TurboGears Developers, > > It would be nice if an install package could be made that included all > the eggs and a script similar to the one I described above was > included > to make installing TurboGears easier for those who

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-25 Thread John M Camara
Bob, I have had my issues with setup tools myself either due to firewalls and having to do installations on computers that are not connected over the Internet. I normally just download the egg files into a directory and move them to the computer which I want to install them. I also add a file

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-25 Thread Karl Guertin
On 8/25/06, Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thankyou very much! That "-zmaxd" magic is something I'd searched for > but not found. I only know about it because I complained to Eby and he told me the code. I've asked him for a --fetch or --fetchonly, since that's what most people are look

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Karl Guertin wrote: > To fetch the actual turbogears eggs you need setuptools (easy_install) > installed on an internet-connected computer. The magic command line > is: > > easy_install -zmaxd /temp/folder/for/turbogears/eggsfiles/ \ > -f http://www.turbogears.org/preview/download/index.html Turbo

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread John J Lee
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Cliff Wells wrote: > Something I've encountered a few times now is easy_install.pth will > occasionally get wiped out by an errant setup.py. The quick fix is to [...] Which projects do that (wipe easy_install.pth)? John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~--

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Cliff Wells
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:42 +, John J Lee wrote: > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Cliff Wells wrote: > > > Something I've encountered a few times now is easy_install.pth will > > occasionally get wiped out by an errant setup.py. The quick fix is to > [...] > > Which projects do that (wipe easy_instal

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Tim Lesher
On 8/24/06, John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Cliff Wells wrote: > > > Something I've encountered a few times now is easy_install.pth will > > occasionally get wiped out by an errant setup.py. The quick fix is to > [...] > > Which projects do that (wipe easy_install.p

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Cliff Wells
Just to add to the knowledge pool of easy_installed packages ;-) This isn't related to the OP's problem, but is worth mentioning. Something I've encountered a few times now is easy_install.pth will occasionally get wiped out by an errant setup.py. The quick fix is to simply "cd /usr/lib/python2

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Karl Guertin
On 8/24/06, Karl Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (as an aside > if PJE reads this, please have the main method check the current > directory for the appropriate egg before creating the temp dir and > trying to download). Responding to my own message, it looks like PJE has done just this. Hoo

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Karl Guertin
On 8/24/06, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I need ez_setup.py to install easy_install. - Fair Enough. > But in order for ez_setup.py to run I need setuptools for Python. - > Getting stupid now > And to install setuptools, I need to run ez_setup!! - What kind of > perverse circular log

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 8/24/06, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please watch your mouth, jsut because you don't undestand something it doesn't means it's broken ez_setup IS AN ONLINE TOOL to get setuptools going. setuptools itself is NOT design to run offline > All I want to do is install TurboGears. The server I

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread venkatbo
Bob, Would it be possible to download the needed files to a place accessible to this target machine. Then you may be able to follow the tip (using a directory as source of eggs) at: http://www.turbogears.org/preview/download/install.html#nolinks hth, /venkat --~--~-~--~~-