Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-26 Thread Alexander Michael
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Floris Bruynooghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something that this requirement should probably explicitly describe: does this database only concern modules, i.e. installed in a directory that's on sys.path? My understanding is that it does. However I'm unsure

[Distutils] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you

2008-03-26 Thread zooko
Folks: Here is a simple proposal: make the standard Python import mechanism notice eggs on the PYTHONPATH and insert them (into the *same* location) on the sys.path. This eliminates the #1 problem with eggs -- that they don't easily work when installing them into places other than your

[Distutils] setuptools bug report: _get_unpatched() is way too clever (and also returns the wrong module)

2008-03-26 Thread zooko
Bug report #1: _get_unpatched() returns a module from the system site-packages instead of the module from the PYTHONPATH which ought to have precedence, leading to setuptools-0.6c8 invoking setuptools-0.6a9 in the following stack trace:

Re: [Distutils] setuptools bug report: _get_unpatched() is way too clever (and also returns the wrong module)

2008-03-26 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 06:09 PM 3/26/2008 -0700, zooko wrote: Bug report #1: ... PYTHONPATH=/home/buildslave/slave-tahoe/dapper/build/support/lib/ python2.4/site-packages python ./setup.py develop --prefix=/home/ buildslave/slave-tahoe/dapper/build/support ... Running Nevow-0.9.18/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] how to easily consume just the parts of eggs that are good for you

2008-03-26 Thread Chris McDonough
zooko wrote: Folks: Here is a simple proposal: make the standard Python import mechanism notice eggs on the PYTHONPATH and insert them (into the *same* location) on the sys.path. This eliminates the #1 problem with eggs -- that they don't easily work when installing them into

Re: [Distutils] setuptools bug report: _get_unpatched() is way too clever (and also returns the wrong module)

2008-03-26 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 07:25 PM 3/26/2008 -0700, zooko wrote: On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: https://dev.allmydata.com/buildbot-tahoe/builders/dapper/builds/ 1427/steps/compile/logs/stdio That URL requires login credentials that I don't have. And I need the rest of the traceback to make any