Re: [Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

2008-12-02 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 12:01 PM 12/3/2008 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: Setuptools brings nothing for systems with a dependency system. To the system, no; to the package, yes. Please remember that .egg-info isn't just for dependencies, it's also for entry points (an inter-package communication mechanism, so th

Re: [Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

2008-12-02 Thread David Cournapeau
Brian Cameron wrote: > > Now that we have clarified that installing the egg files are useful > and a good practice, I have some additional questions. > > Currently, on Solaris, we build most Python modules without setuptools > being present on our build machine, then we install setuptools, and > la

Re: [Distutils] Are egg files needed when building/installing via --root?

2008-12-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Now that we have clarified that installing the egg files are useful and a good practice, I have some additional questions. Currently, on Solaris, we build most Python modules without setuptools being present on our build machine, then we install setuptools, and lastly a handful of modules which

Re: [Distutils] problem reinstalling easy_install

2008-12-02 Thread Phillip J. Eby
Maybe somebody else on the distutils-sig has some idea, then. I'm lost. If I had to guess though, I'd check and see if maybe your /tmp directory has too many files or directories in it -- i.e., it seems like perhaps easy_install is trying to create a temporary directory, and failing before it

Re: [Distutils] problem reinstalling easy_install

2008-12-02 Thread Phillip J. Eby
Maybe somebody else on the distutils-sig has some idea, then. I'm lost. If I had to guess though, I'd check and see if maybe your /tmp directory has too many files or directories in it -- i.e., it seems like perhaps easy_install is trying to create a temporary directory, and failing before it