On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Kevin Teague <[email protected]> wrote: > "Thou shalt not put thine metadata inside thine data." > > The nltk setup.py imports nltk which in turn imports PyYAML, so you can't > install nltk and it's dependencies until nltk and it's dependencies are > installed. Ideally you should ask the nltk maintainers to not import the > thing which they are trying to install, and move their metadata out of the > nltk package and into setup.py. FWIW, this package won't install w/ pip > either. > > I wasn't aware of the 'setup_requires' option - so I just gave that a try > with a modified nltk package w/ buildout by making the PyYAML setup > dependency explicit, but no dice.
Dang. Well, I guess trying to make that work in buildout is till on my to-do list. Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
