On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:16 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:34 PM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the other day I tried installing numpy with easy_install, and did not > have > > much luck with python2.6. > > What problem exactly do you have ? > > Since 1.3.0, the release process for numpy uses virtualenv internally > to build the installers, so at least python setupegg.py install works > as far as setuptools is concerned. > > > The work around is to just install it in another way (eg, dmg or with > > setup.py install). > > That's the recommended way anyway. I am trying to make sure we work > under as many cases as possible for packaging, but the underlying > python architecture for packaging is so fragile and flawed that things > will break from time to time. > > David > > > Hello David, yeah, I completely understand the unfortunate packaging situation (eg, some of my packages do not work with this install method). Here is a simple package requiring numpy. It uses buildout ( http://www.buildout.org/). To help easily reproduce the problem, here are the commands to reproduce. curl -O http://rene.f0o.com/~rene/numpy_buildout.tar.gz #wget http://rene.f0o.com/~rene/numpy_buildout.tar.gz tar xf numpy_buildout.tar.gz cd numpy_buildout python2.6 bootstrap.py ./bin/buildout It prints out heaps of stuff... then finally fails with: /var/folders/d1/d1p0zeCxF7Kz3G5FZJsh6E+++TM/-Tmp-/easy_install-2WsZVp/numpy-1.3.0/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py:219: RuntimeWarning: Parent module 'numpy.distutils' not found while handling absolute import Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs func(*targs, **kargs) File "/var/folders/d1/d1p0zeCxF7Kz3G5FZJsh6E+++TM/-Tmp-/easy_install-2WsZVp/numpy-1.3.0/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 219, in clean_up_temporary_directory ImportError: No module named numpy.distutils Error in sys.exitfunc: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs func(*targs, **kargs) File "/var/folders/d1/d1p0zeCxF7Kz3G5FZJsh6E+++TM/-Tmp-/easy_install-2WsZVp/numpy-1.3.0/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 219, in clean_up_temporary_directory I hope that helps if someone wants to reproduce the problem very easily some time. notes: * you should not have numpy installed already to reproduce the problem, otherwise the buildout uses the installed version and works. * use `python bootstrap.py -d` if you want to use distribute instead of setuptools (which has python3.1 support). * numpy with buildout works ok with python2.5 cheers,
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