On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Chris Withers <ch...@python.org> wrote: > On 05/04/2013 12:48, Jim Fulton wrote: >>> >>> My guess as to what happened: I was using python2.7 (which is EPD, >>> containing a tonne of packages including an older version of xlrd). >> >> >> BTW, I have no idea what EPD means. > > > Enthought Python Distribution, I should emphasise *was* using above... > > >>> Since that xlrd was getting picked instead of the one in the develop line >>> (wasn't that bug supposed to be fixed in buildout 2?!) >> >> >> There was quite a bit of discussion about this recently and there >> was no consensus that develop eggs should be preferred to >> over non-develop eggs with higher versions. > > > The non-develop eggs here have significantly *lower* version numbers. > (and really, if I say I'm developing a package, why would a non-development > version be picked?!)
There are people who agree with you and people who don't. <shrug> > >>> At times like this (when I've just wasted 1.5hrs chasing my tail) I >>> really >>> truly hate buildout :-( >> >> >> It's times like this that I really really hate it when people insist on >> using >> dirty Pythons when they should know better. > > > Two comments, the first an order of magnitude more important than the > second: > > 1. I *was using a clean python*. Buildout decided to use some crap *it* left > lying around from a totally different Python installation when I ran > python2.6<clean, build form source> bootstrap.py But you were using a dirty Python and that left your buildout in a bad state. There's not a lot I can (or am willing) to do about that. > > 2. There is some practicality here. EPD provides suitable versions of a > tonne of packages I can't and often don't even want to try compiling from > source. I understand. I sure hope wheels help this situation. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
