[Distutils] Distribute error? datetimewidget.pot: File name too long

[P.J. Eby]

At 04:25 PM 9/24/2010 +0100, Jon Hadley wrote:
>Similar error here with easy_install:
>
>Best match: fez.atcsv 0.2
>Processing fez.atcsv-0.2-py2.4.egg
>fez.atcsv 0.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
>
>Using 
>/Users/foobar/development/sites/gpi/gpi3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/fez.atcsv-0.2-py2.4.egg
>Processing dependencies for fez.atcsv
>Searching for zope.interface
>Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/zope.interface/
>Best match: zope.interface 3.6.1
>Downloading 
>http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zope.interface/zope.interface-3.6.1.tar.gz#md5=7a895181b8d10be4a7e9a3afa13cd3be
>Processing zope.interface-3.6.1.tar.gz
>Running zope.interface-3.6.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir 
>/var/folders/N1/N1WTRWwWE5Gfqr-Sut+UVk+++TM/-Tmp-/easy_install-WbqHry/zope.interface-3.6.1/egg-dist-tmp-3nTDSI
>error: Setup script exited with error: Setup script exited with 
>error: Setup script exited with error: Setup script exited with 
>error: Setup script exited with error: Setup script exited with 
>error: Setup script exited with error: Setup script exited with 
>error: Setup script exited with error: Setup script exited with 
>error: Setup script exited with error: Setup script exited with 
>error: Setup script exited with error: Setup script exited with 
>error: Setup script exited with error: Setup script exited with 
>error: Setup script exited with error: Setup script exited with 
>error: Setup script exited with error: 
>/var/folders/N1/N1WTRWwWE5Gfqr-Sut+UVk+++TM/-Tmp-/easy_install-WbqHry/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-zCqg_j/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-BMwk4f/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-3cf4q3/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-qq9hdi/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-1YuNjW/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-UFBQy3/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-5iJ_Iz/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-EUYmlj/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-Fb6CP_/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-xxEDGH/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-VWbLfl/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-h0wTxV/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-atbmIa/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-PmspAW/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install--YMDu6/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-pUOez5/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-huEA2x/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-wMJuwp/zope.interface-3.6.1/temp/easy_install-rlKxe4/zope.interface-3.6.1/src/zope/interface/commo
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>/test_import_interfaces.py: File name too long

Hm.  I'm not able to reproduce this, with either install or 
easy_install, on setuptools 0.6 or 0.7, on Python 2.4 or 2.5, on 
Windows or Linux.  Have you tried it *without* a virtualenv, i.e.:

    /path/to/the/real/python easy_install -md somedir fez.atcsv

?

(By the way, it appears that one problem you may be encountering 
anyway is that several of the packages you're trying to install do 
not support Python version 2.4, and have many syntax errors during 
the build process.)


> > does distribute work for this as well?
>
>I'm not completely clear how to test this. I'm working in a 
>virtualenv which has been 'bootstrapped with the python bootstrap.py 
>-d' option - does that make setuptools a distribute fork?

It's the other way around, actually.  Distribute is a fork of setuptools.