On 5/14/07, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > id love if this issue were reported on the Distutils mailing list > (though im pretty sure theres a flag in setuptools to disable the egg > generation upon setup which might be the solution here)... since I'd > really like a lot more people to be there hammering setuptools into > proper shape (even if that includes just "documentation" of options > like these).
>From http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#command-line-options ===== Command-Line Options --zip-ok, -z Install all packages as zip files, even if they are marked as unsafe for running as a zipfile. This can be useful when EasyInstall's analysis of a non-setuptools package is too conservative, but keep in mind that the package may not work correctly. (Changed in 0.5a9; previously this option was required in order for zipped installation to happen at all.) --always-unzip, -Z Don't install any packages as zip files, even if the packages are marked as safe for running as a zipfile. This can be useful if a package does something unsafe, but not in a way that EasyInstall can easily detect. EasyInstall's default analysis is currently very conservative, however, so you should only use this option if you've had problems with a particular package, and after reporting the problem to the package's maintainer and to the EasyInstall maintainers. (Note: the -z/-Z options only affect the installation of newly-built or downloaded packages that are not already installed in the target directory; if you want to convert an existing installed version from zipped to unzipped or vice versa, you'll need to delete the existing version first, and re-run EasyInstall.) ===== So, the proper solution is to delete the easy_install-ed sqlalchemy egg (if there's any) from the site-packages dir and then run: easy_install -Z SQLAlchemy or easy_install -Z -U SQLAlchemy Alternatively, one can edit setup.py and add the zip_safe argument to the setup function, like: setup( # ... zip_safe = False # ... ) in order to always unzip the easy_install-ed egg. Currently, SQLAlchemy's setup(...) hasn't set this arg, meaning that setuptools uses its own algorithm to determine if SQLAlchemy can be installed as a zipped egg. See: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#setting-the-zip-safe-flag IMO the setuptools docs are very good. Edin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
