On Nov 23, 8:13 pm, Christopher Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Sizer schrieb: > > > I can probably get around this by installing Setuptools manually, but > > hey, there isn't a 2.6 executable of Setuptools for Windows yet. > > *sigh* I can get the egg named above, but dunno what to do with it, > > putting it into site-packages achieves nothing, and the documentation > > says, "to install eggs, use easy_install/setuptools". Not so much a > > chicken-or-egg situation as an egg-or-egg situation! How ridiculous. > > When you read the documentation setuptools, you'll see that there is a > bootstrap module available for first time setuptools install > > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools
On the other hand, that bootstrap comment is talking about when you are distributing an application, and implies "the user is building your package from source". So, this is naturally going to be passed over by those who just wish to install setuptools. They will, quite reasonably and logically, keep reading to the "Installing setuptools" section, see that the first first line says "Please follow the EasyInstall Installation Instructions to install the current stable version of setuptools", go to the EasyInstall instructions and see that the first line says "Please see the setuptools PyPI page for download links and basic installation instructions for each of the supported platforms.", and see that there is no correct package available for them. These are quite clear instructions. Apparently they are also quite insufficient. This is all that is bad about Python in one problem: poor documentation, awkward package management, and backwards compatibility issues. It's almost enough to make me glad I use C++ at work. But thanks for the pointer nonetheless. -- Ben Sizer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
