On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 9:37 AM <felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com> wrote:
> > How about > > "empty egg-info file, possibly due to an aborted egg-install - please > remove the file and reinstall the corresponding egg"? > > > > Rationale: Matt's case. check-errors.egg-info was empty, but the > > installation of base64 was failing. If Matt had removed > > check-errors.egg-info and retried installing base64, the installation of > > base64 would work, but check-errors would still be broken > > (chicken-status and chicken-uninstall would ignore it, for example). > > Sure, whatever - feel free to change the message, if you think that makes > it clearer. > My reporting on this was incorrect. Sorry for creating the churn. I believe there is something going genuinely wrong with check-errors. One hypothesis I have is that Windows is seeing the file name containing "errors" and doing something stupid and annoying. I am not experienced with Windows and have no clue what that thing might be but I'll keep digging. > > felix > > -- -- Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple. - Richard Branson.
