-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 28, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 01:49 PM 12/28/2007 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> Would it be possible to just print the traceback? > > You can set the DISTUTILS_DEBUG environment variable to get > tracebacks from distutils or setuptools. Good to know, thanks. >> This is the MacPorts version of Python, so I guess I have to shame >> them for busting setuptools. I ended up re-installing it manually to >> make it happy again. Your explanation about the root problem was >> helpful in understanding that this was probably the right course of >> action. :) Maybe I'll try to figure out why the MacPorts version >> broke. > > They took out the 'site.py' file. It's not optional. > > >> The other thing I didn't understand is why I got a different error >> message after the first "setup.py develop" and why it took deleting >> mailman.egg-info to get the original error message back. Maybe I >> should look at the setuptools code more carefully. <wink> > > I'm guessing that your setup.py includes a source-finding entry > point. When the .egg-info already exists, the entry point would get > called during the egg_info source manifest generation, and it's > apparently hitting a missing requirement. When the .egg-info > doesn't exist, the entry point wouldn't get called. > Yep, thanks again. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR3VeS3EjvBPtnXfVAQKM/QP+JkaWLWQ5jVjh9G6x2hSSIgl0F+8+JYk9 45HpJ8sTBiJKdjRqfjmITXm4T1EZRtgbPuqRzdgxYEIRBmEl0OHP0LGSCpSbMyxC Hn/rdnbk/aqMRd8QvDLo3KtpSW/4Ek/A/CpbDxN5KufjPnBfYm5qLS6Bs8PoCAaU BIb4y3PCNZY= =4LmM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
