Re: how do you prevent distutils from downloading and building packages without consent?

2009-03-28 Thread lkcl
read the setuptools documentation? Didn't you *test* your setup.py before making it available to the world? yes - and it worked on my debian linux box. so, off it went. turns out that it worked because i had python-setuptools preinstalled. alarmed to find that setup.py, thanks to

Re: how do you prevent distutils from downloading and building packages without consent?

2009-03-28 Thread lkcl
ok - john, gabriel, i've now removed setuptools, which is the area that's problematic for many people. however there's a feature of setuptools which _is_ useful: -entry_points = {'console_scripts':[ - 'pyjsbuild=pyjs.build:main', -

Re: how do you prevent distutils from downloading and building packages without consent?

2009-03-28 Thread lkcl
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-March/008925.html dang. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how do you prevent distutils from downloading and building packages without consent?

2009-03-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:59:15 -0300, lkcl luke.leigh...@googlemail.com escribió: a number of people using pyjamas are not only encountering difficulties with setup.py endeavouring to download and install setuptools but also they are ... the best word to use is unfortunately offended - by the

Re: how do you prevent distutils from downloading and building packages without consent?

2009-03-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:34:58 -0300, John Machin sjmac...@lexicon.net escribió: On Mar 26, 9:59 pm, lkcl luke.leigh...@googlemail.com wrote: a number of people using pyjamas are not only encountering difficulties with setup.py endeavouring to download and install setuptools but also they are

how do you prevent distutils from downloading and building packages without consent?

2009-03-26 Thread lkcl
folks, hi, a number of people using pyjamas are not only encountering difficulties with setup.py endeavouring to download and install setuptools but also they are ... the best word to use is unfortunately offended - by the fact that distutils, in its default configuration, downloads and even

Re: how do you prevent distutils from downloading and building packages without consent?

2009-03-26 Thread John Machin
On Mar 26, 9:59 pm, lkcl luke.leigh...@googlemail.com wrote: folks, hi, a number of people using pyjamas are not only encountering difficulties with setup.py endeavouring to download and install setuptools but also they are ... the best word to use is unfortunately offended - by the fact