Philip- Thanks for your replies. I hope I'm not sounding like I'm complaining too much. I'm just an easy_setup newbie. It makes complete sense that windows files can't overwrite files in use. I'll try and forward this info to the Kid folks (and do my part to help out ;))
On 12/7/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > m h wrote: > > Hmmm, I commented out the requirement for json in setup.py and ran > > "python setup.py develop" again. It's failing on Kid now with a > > Sandbox violation. > > Kid tries to import its dependencies in its setup script, before > installation has even occurred. This is, uh, well, seriously broken, > because by definition your package isn't ready to run if isn't > installed yet, and its dependencies aren't going to be there. It would > be good if someone could pass that info along to the Kid maintainers. > > Kid's setup script tries to import kid during setup in order to find > out what version it is and some other stuff. There's a safer, saner > way to do that, though; the recently-added PyPI project "networkx" has > a good example in its setup script using execfile() instead of import > in order to get at that data without actually importing the package and > its dependencies. > > Anyway, I do plan a workaround for the issue that's creating the > sandbox violation in Kid, but there's no way for me to work around the > essential brokenness of trying to import dependencies before they're > installed. :( > >
