Re: [Distutils] setup_requires not caching downloaded packages?

2009-06-26 Thread P.J. Eby
At 05:02 PM 6/26/2009 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: When you build an sdist using setuptools, it includes a pre- generated file manifest, along with a setup.cfg that forces the right revision tag information in the project's version number (if applicable). This is specifically designed so that the

Re: [Distutils] setup_requires not caching downloaded packages?

2009-06-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hi Zooko, On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: What is the download cache? It's where buildout caches packages it downloads and it's very handy because we can tell buildout to use a pre-defined download cache and to never download anything from the intarwebs. Except

Re: [Distutils] setup_requires not caching downloaded packages?

2009-06-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
Sorry for the delay in responding and the lack of clarity in the original message... On Jun 22, 2009, at 11:40 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: I don't know what the "download cache" is, so I can't speak to that. However, what I can say is that if you're using "sdist" for distribution, you probably do

Re: [Distutils] newbie bootstrap question

2009-06-26 Thread Dave Peterson
David Kim wrote: I am running the OS X EPD distribution, which uses Enstaller (built on setuptools). Could this have something to do with it? Sorry, but yes, this is exactly the problem. EPD comes with Enstaller instead of setuptools, and thus there is no installed project called 'setuptool

Re: [Distutils] newbie bootstrap question

2009-06-26 Thread David Kim
Thanks Jim, I think you are correct. The result of the script you provided returned 'None'. Unfortunately, I commented out the "try" code... > #try: #import pkg_resources #except ImportError: and left the "except" code... ez = {} exec urllib2.urlopen('http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/e

Re: [Distutils] newbie bootstrap question

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jun 25, 2009, at 7:20 PM, David Kim wrote: Sorry to ask, but I'm having with the first step of the buildout process, the bootstrap.py script. I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "bootstrap.py", line 76, in ws.find(pkg_resources.Requirement.parse('