Re: [Distutils] Setup tools causes problems with orca finding its python packages

2008-09-24 Thread Phillip J. Eby
This should now be fixed in the trunk, branch, and the just-released 0.6c9 version. At 04:24 PM 9/23/2008 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote: This seems to do it (I know that this is not the correct way of doing things, but I have made the mistake): As root install plasTeX (http://plastex.sf.net, al

Re: [Distutils] Setup tools causes problems with orca finding its python packages

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Whapples
This seems to do it (I know that this is not the correct way of doing things, but I have made the mistake): As root install plasTeX (http://plastex.sf.net, also in pypi) from source by using the setup.py script in it. This should add a plasTeX directory to your site-packages directory. Forget to un

Re: [Distutils] Setup tools causes problems with orca finding its python packages

2008-09-23 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 03:32 PM 9/23/2008 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote: I have noticed that easy_install has a easy-install.pth file which seems to be adding the directories specified in it before any other python package directories, including the environment variable PYTHONPATH. This causes a problem with orca wh

[Distutils] Setup tools causes problems with orca finding its python packages

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Whapples
I have noticed that easy_install has a easy-install.pth file which seems to be adding the directories specified in it before any other python package directories, including the environment variable PYTHONPATH. This causes a problem with orca which uses a bash script to start itself, and specifies w