[Distutils] easy_install path

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Hearne
I'm having a problem with easy_install and a library I just installed. I have a Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), and I used the SciPy SuperPack installer (http://macinscience.org/?page_id=6) to install a whole bunch of scientific packages, including matplotlib. I then used easy_install to install

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools Bug: all files installed +x

2008-05-01 Thread Pete
On Apr 22, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Cliff Wells wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:19 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 11:49 AM 4/22/2008 -0400, Pete wrote: On Apr 21, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 04:23 PM 4/21/2008 -0400, Pete wrote: I'm not looking for explicit testing support from

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools Bug: all files installed +x

2008-05-01 Thread zooko
On May 1, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Pete wrote: Did a decision ever get made here? I don't mean to be a nag, but this is continuing to cause problems for me and my users. Just wanted to make sure it doesn't get lost/forgotten. This is why people have bug trackers y'know. ;-( I agree that bug

Re: [Distutils] [Python-Dev] shal we redefine module and package?

2008-05-01 Thread zooko
On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a less disruptive counterproposal. How about just starting to refer to directories (or folders, or zip entries) with '__init__.py' in them as package modules? A package is-a module anyway. That's a good idea. I belive a

[Distutils] Why not distutils? (was Re: [Python-Dev] shal we redefine module and package?)

2008-05-01 Thread glyph
I'm not on distutils-sig, but this is probably of little interest to python-dev. Please Cc: me if you think my continued input would be useful to this discussion. On 08:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: almost always in the phrase, please do not use distutils to do a system install of Twisted,

Re: [Distutils] Why not distutils? (was Re: [Python-Dev] shal we redefine module and package?)

2008-05-01 Thread Jim Fulton
On May 1, 2008, at 4:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not on distutils-sig, but this is probably of little interest to python-dev. Please Cc: me if you think my continued input would be useful to this discussion. On 08:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: almost always in the phrase,