[Distutils] Twisted and easy_install

2006-02-05 Thread Jay Parlar
I'm having trouble doing an install of the newest Twisted from the Cheeseshop, using easy_install. I took a quick look through the archives of distutils-sig, and couldn't find anything. I'm running on OS X 10.3.9, latest version of setuptools (did an 'easy_install -U setuptools' right before I

[Distutils] Easy install, making Traditional PYTHONPATH-based Installation work better

2006-02-05 Thread Jim Fulton
I'be been learning about setuptools and eggs and am very pleased. There is one area where I'd like to see a small tweak. In: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#custom-installation-locations four options are presented for installing outside of Python installation.

Re: [Distutils] Easy install, making Traditional PYTHONPATH-based Installation work better

2006-02-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 10:52 AM 2/5/2006 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: I'be been learning about setuptools and eggs and am very pleased. There is one area where I'd like to see a small tweak. In: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#custom-installation-locations four options are presented for

Re: [Distutils] Twisted and easy_install

2006-02-05 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 07:05 AM 2/5/2006 -0800, Jay Parlar wrote: I'm having trouble doing an install of the newest Twisted from the Cheeseshop, using easy_install. I took a quick look through the archives of distutils-sig, and couldn't find anything. I'm

Re: [Distutils] Twisted and easy_install

2006-02-05 Thread Jay Parlar
On 2/5/06, Bob Ippolito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: [snip] Twisted does some interesting mangling of the build_ext process in order to support optional extensions, that are only determined at build time. I've been meaning to add a

Re: [Distutils] Easy install, making Traditional PYTHONPATH-based Installation work better

2006-02-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:16 PM 2/5/2006 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: It's too bad setuptools isn't in the standard library. If it was, I'd probably just stick all my eggs and scripts in the same place and be done ith it. :) It's still tempting. Note that it's only actually necessary for *pkg_resources* to be

Re: [Distutils] [Pythonmac-SIG] pkg_resources and Mac OS X compatibility

2006-02-05 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Feb 5, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: With the way that we're returning the distutils platform on the universal branch of Mac OS X, we need another patch to pkg_resources. The reason for this is that distutils.util.get_platform() returns the platform that it is trying to