But without it: python setup.py install
may not work because who knows what versions of what libraries you can get. Setuptools is terrible, but it's what we've got. I'm flexible on what we should do here, but I don't know if there is any right way to do it. --Mark Ramm On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Jorge Vargas <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi, some time ago lines like these, where added to both tgdev and tg2 > > [easy_install] > index_url = http://turbogears.org/2.0/downloads/current/index > > I think this is harmful as it's misleading and confusing, because the > behavior of easy_install will be different depending on the folder you > are in. > > I have been bitten (and seen other people too) by this several times. > > For example if you have setuptools .8 and svn 1.5 > > $ python setup.py develop > > will break, since most of us now know setuptools .9 is the only one > that works ok with svn 1.5 we'll write > > $ easy_installl -U setuptools > > and that fixes the problem, but it doesn't for TG as > http://turbogears.org/2.0/downloads/current/index/setuptools/ doesn't > have the .9 egg. > > another example of this is that there is no way to run an upgraded > version of a library since "current" is supposed to be >trunk so the > only reasonable way to run trunk with newer (not in the index) > dependencies will be going outside the directory or deleting the 2 > offending lines. > > So bottom line I think they should be deleted as they cause too much > magic, easy_install is supposed to go to pypi that is how everyone > understands it. > > > > -- Mark Ramm-Christensen email: mark at compoundthinking dot com blog: www.compoundthinking.com/blog --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
