[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-29 Thread Krys
Karl Guertin wrote: I've had to do this. The difficult part is installing setuptools. I don't know if it is commonly known or not, so I'll mention it, but setuptools can be downloaded and installed like a regular (old style) python package (python setup.py install), just grab the zip file

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:56:08 -0400 Kevin Dangoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Aug 26, 2006, at 1:57 AM, isaac wrote: The point is, we need something like that for TG (perhaps call it Flywheel or Axle?). Reducing barriers for new people to get started (and making it easier on the

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-26 Thread Kevin Dangoor
On Aug 26, 2006, at 1:57 AM, isaac wrote: The point is, we need something like that for TG (perhaps call it Flywheel or Axle?). Reducing barriers for new people to get started (and making it easier on the experts) is a good thing. It wouldn't make sense to do before TG 1.0 is ready, but I

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Karl Guertin wrote: To fetch the actual turbogears eggs you need setuptools (easy_install) installed on an internet-connected computer. The magic command line is: easy_install -zmaxd /temp/folder/for/turbogears/eggsfiles/ \ -f http://www.turbogears.org/preview/download/index.html TurboGears

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-25 Thread John M Camara
Bob, I have had my issues with setup tools myself either due to firewalls and having to do installations on computers that are not connected over the Internet. I normally just download the egg files into a directory and move them to the computer which I want to install them. I also add a file

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread venkatbo
Bob, Would it be possible to download the needed files to a place accessible to this target machine. Then you may be able to follow the tip (using a directory as source of eggs) at: http://www.turbogears.org/preview/download/install.html#nolinks hth, /venkat

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 8/24/06, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please watch your mouth, jsut because you don't undestand something it doesn't means it's broken ez_setup IS AN ONLINE TOOL to get setuptools going. setuptools itself is NOT design to run offline All I want to do is install TurboGears. The server I

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Karl Guertin
On 8/24/06, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I need ez_setup.py to install easy_install. - Fair Enough. But in order for ez_setup.py to run I need setuptools for Python. - Getting stupid now And to install setuptools, I need to run ez_setup!! - What kind of perverse circular logic is

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Karl Guertin
On 8/24/06, Karl Guertin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (as an aside if PJE reads this, please have the main method check the current directory for the appropriate egg before creating the temp dir and trying to download). Responding to my own message, it looks like PJE has done just this. Hoorah!

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Cliff Wells
Just to add to the knowledge pool of easy_installed packages ;-) This isn't related to the OP's problem, but is worth mentioning. Something I've encountered a few times now is easy_install.pth will occasionally get wiped out by an errant setup.py. The quick fix is to simply cd

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Tim Lesher
On 8/24/06, John J Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Cliff Wells wrote: Something I've encountered a few times now is easy_install.pth will occasionally get wiped out by an errant setup.py. The quick fix is to [...] Which projects do that (wipe easy_install.pth)?

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread Cliff Wells
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:42 +, John J Lee wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Cliff Wells wrote: Something I've encountered a few times now is easy_install.pth will occasionally get wiped out by an errant setup.py. The quick fix is to [...] Which projects do that (wipe easy_install.pth)?

[TurboGears] Re: ez_setup?? Easy my @ss!

2006-08-24 Thread John J Lee
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Cliff Wells wrote: Something I've encountered a few times now is easy_install.pth will occasionally get wiped out by an errant setup.py. The quick fix is to [...] Which projects do that (wipe easy_install.pth)? John