At 02:35 PM 2/13/2007 -0800, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >Philip, > >The attached patched replaces pkg_resources._macosx_vers by a function >that directly parses the relevant XML file instead of using sw_vers. The >patch is an svn diff relative to the trunk. > >The main reason I prefer this version is that I'm debugging some C code in >a project using setuptools using command-line gdb (who needs IDE's?) and I >often (but not always) get I/O errors when reading from a pipe to a >forked-off process when running python from gdb. With this patch >pkg_resources no longer forks of processes and gdb is happy. > >When you're not using gdb there's little reason to prefer this version >over the original one.
Your patch uses plistlib, which doesn't appear to be part of the Python standard library. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
