Re: [Distutils] Distribute comments

2011-01-04 Thread Alan Franzoni
Hello, have you just seen distribute guide - which is just an update fork of the original setuptools distribution - or did you check out this as well?: http://guide.python-distribute.org/ Surely the setuptools/distribute fork has been painful so far, but it's done. You could check out

Re: [Distutils] Distribute comments

2011-01-04 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:42 PM, K. Richard Pixley r...@noir.com wrote: I've just read through the Distribute doc for the first time and I have a few comments. First, I just want to say that the state of python packaging is a sad morass.  It's not easy for someone to sort out

Re: [Distutils] Distribute comments

2011-01-04 Thread K. Richard Pixley
On 1/4/11 06:40 , Alan Franzoni wrote: Hello, have you just seen distribute guide - which is just an update fork of the original setuptools distribution - or did you check out this as well?: http://guide.python-distribute.org/ Surely the setuptools/distribute fork has been painful so far, but

Re: [Distutils] Distribute comments

2011-01-04 Thread Alan Franzoni
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:37 PM, K. Richard Pixley r...@noir.com wrote: http://guide.python-distribute.org Look at that. You'll find it useful, even though it's still a work in progress. And I haven't yet seen a piece of overall documentation.  With at least three major efforts being involved,

[Distutils] distutils and MSVCR90.DLL

2011-01-04 Thread Mark Sienkiewicz
Hi, I have a python package with C extensions. In Python 2.5 on Windows, it works as expected. In Python 2.7, it compiles and installs, but the import fails with: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. I found a program called Dependecy Walker that tells

Re: [Distutils] distutils and MSVCR90.DLL

2011-01-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Apparently, MSVCR90 is a newer version of the C runtime library. I have several copies of MSVCR71.DLL on my machine, but nothing named MSVCR90.DLL. I'm pretty sure you do have this DLL: the Python installation came with it. Check the WinSxS folder. Some web searching led me to find