Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst and Vista User Account Control (UAC)

2007-07-05 Thread Mark Hammond
Hi Thomas, > > So I see a few alternatives, but none are very desirable: > > I have not yet even used vista, so I fear I cannot answer > your questions, or even offer an opinion... > > > * Only make this "admin required" check if a specific > version of Python is > > necessary (ie, the package con

Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst and Vista User Account Control (UAC)

2007-07-05 Thread Thomas Heller
Mark Hammond schrieb: > The pywin32 extensions require (well, prefer) administrative access during > installation - certain files are copied to the System32 directory and the > registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is written to. Also, if I understand > correctly, if Python happened to be installed into

Re: [Distutils] setuptools: Problem with auto-scripts and standalone scripts

2007-07-05 Thread Frank McIngvale
Thanks! That did the trick. frank On 7/5/07, Nathan R. Yergler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scripts need to address a callable, not a module. See http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation and inline below for corrections. On 7/5/07, Frank McIngvale <[EMAIL P

Re: [Distutils] setuptools: Problem with auto-scripts and standalone scripts

2007-07-05 Thread Nathan R. Yergler
Scripts need to address a callable, not a module. See http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation and inline below for corrections. On 7/5/07, Frank McIngvale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to use setuptools auto-script feature with standalone scripts

[Distutils] setuptools: Problem with auto-scripts and standalone scripts

2007-07-05 Thread Frank McIngvale
Hi, I'm trying to use setuptools auto-script feature with standalone scripts and am having problems. Say I have a script "mypkg/scripts/foo.py": - import sys print "Hello foo! My args are:",sys.argv - When I try wrapping it like this: 'console_

Re: [Distutils] Buildout not updating setuptools

2007-07-05 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Graham Stratton wrote: Sorry to take so long to reply. I needed to find time to try to reproduce this. > Hi, I'm having a problem with buildout. > > My system has setuptools 0.6c5 installed. The buildout bootstrap.py > script > doesn't install the latest version,

[Distutils] Preferring final releases

2007-07-05 Thread Jim Fulton
Currently, when looking for a new release, easy_install and buildout look for the newest distributions that satisfy a requirement. They will, for example, prefer a newer development release or preliminary release (dev, alpha, beta, or rc) over a final release. I don't think this is a good