[Distutils] [issue65] setuptools bug, inconsistent replacement of eggs when installing from file:// urls.

2009-03-30 Thread Salim Fadhley
New submission from Salim Fadhley s...@stodge.org: I think I've found a bug in the way that setuptools selects whether an egg specified by file:// url should be installed over an existing (identical) egg: To re-create the fault: * Install the egg of your choice. * make two local egg

[Distutils] [issue66] Misleading exception thrown when attempting to installa missing .egg from a file:// url

2009-03-30 Thread Salim Fadhley
New submission from Salim Fadhley s...@stodge.org: Steps to re-create * Set up an environment as per my previous email but without the egg installed in site-packages. * Delete the egg from the egg_repository so that the file we expect to see is missing, but is still indicated in the html file

[Distutils] The Ubuntu (Debian?) package maintainers for distutils and setuptools broke PYTHONUSERBASE

2009-03-30 Thread Larry Hastings
I'm trying to add a lightweight virtualenv to a local build system using PYTHONUSERBASE. Unfortunately the package maintainers for distutils and setuptools broke it on my Ubuntu laptop. I have incontrovertable proof! PYTHONUSERBASE doesn't scan the exact directory you set it to; you're

Re: [Distutils] The Ubuntu (Debian?) package maintainers for distutils and setuptools broke PYTHONUSERBASE

2009-03-30 Thread Andrew Straw
Larry Hastings wrote: I'm trying to add a lightweight virtualenv to a local build system using PYTHONUSERBASE. Unfortunately the package maintainers for distutils and setuptools broke it on my Ubuntu laptop. Then you should file a bug report at