At 11:36 AM 3/7/2006 -0800, Ben Bangert wrote:
>I think I had this problem earlier, and it went away, but now its
>back for some reason. Several users have reported it to me as well.
>Apparently the sandbox testing runs, and tries to import a package
>that wasn't installed yet. Is there anyway to make it actually
>install dependencies *before* doing its sandbox stuff?

No; the setup script has to be run in order to find out what the 
dependencies are.

Note that as a general rule, distutils setup scripts shouldn't import the 
code they're trying to install.  It tends to lead to problems on users' 
machines that don't show up on the developer's machine.

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