Mailman 3 April 2008 - Distutils-SIG

PATCH: Multiple test suites
by Carlos Valiente 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

This patch adds support for running more than one test suite, as in: $ ./setup.py test -s foo.tests.suite,bar.tests.suite Enjoy, C

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Can't generate console script with buildout - even when using zc.recipe.egg
by Anton Stonor 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

Hi there, I was hoping a buildout guru could give a hand on this one: The "RelStorage" package comes as an egg and installing it in a buildout environment works fine. However I can't find a way to let buildout generate the zodbconvert console script that comes with RelStorage. easy_install RelStorage adds the script fine. I know you should use zc.recipe.egg in this case, but no result. The RelStorage setup.py comes with this: scripts=['scripts/zodbconvert.py'] but no "console_scripts" entry points (maybe that is needed?) I found a kind-of workaround: entry-points = zodbconvert=zodbconvert:main extra-paths = /home/stonor/projects/mybuildout/eggs/RelStorage-1.0.1-py2.4.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts But it is annoying to hard code the path to RelStorage-1.0.1-py2.4.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts. Is there a way to dynamically look up the path to an egg with bulidout or a another way to solve my issue? /Anton Stonor

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Fwd: Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy as a setuptools dependency
by Andreas Klöckner 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Ok, forwarding this to distutils-sig. :) Andreas

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setuptools "install" writes to build directory
by Andreas Klöckner 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Hi there, when you install a setuptools-equipped package with python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install the "install" stage writes to the build directory, as root. This is not great behavior, and will fail on NFS-mounted build roots. Can something be done to avoid this? Andreas

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Providing binary packages for Python versions with different internal unicode representation
by Andreas Jung 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Hi, Python interpreters can be compiled by different internal unicode representations (UCS2 vs. UCS4). Extension modules using unicode methods of Python internally can not be used with a Python interpreter with a different internal unicode representation. What's the deal when you want to provide binary packages of an extension module for Python interpreters with different unicode representations....is there some support for doing this using setuptools? Andreas

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Re: [Distutils] questions on setuptools
by Phillip J. Eby 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

At 01:01 PM 4/23/2008 -0600, Michael Hearne wrote: >Phillip - Thanks for the quick response. One feature suggestion for >the future: > > From my perhaps naive perspective, it seems like it would be easy to >add non-PyPI dependencies that the installer could complain about. >For example, if the setup() function accepted a keyword list that >contained just the name of the package (whatever you use to import >it), and then have the installer do something like this: > >deps = ['foo','bar'] (this is the keyword list passed to the setup >function) >notfound = [] >for dep in deps: > try: > __import__(dep) > except: > notfound.append(dep) > if notfound: > print 'The following required packages are not > installed. Exiting.' >% (str(notfound)) > sys.exit(1) I don't think this is a significant enough improvement over the package aborting at runtime, to add the complexity. Plus, it removes the incentive for the depender to lobby the dependee to make their package easy_install-able. :) (And, it's actually more complex if you're trying to do version detection as well as presence detection. There's some old code in setuptools.depends that tries to do this sort of thing, but I abandoned that approach many years ago.)

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questions on setuptools
by Michael Hearne 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

I'm creating a software package for in-house consumption, and will be using setuptools to create an egg that I can easily install, upgrade, etc. I'm able to answer most of my own questions from trolling through the documentation, but I have two that I can't find the answers for: 1) If I depend on packages that are not in PyPI and are not available through some other simple means (svn, simple .py, etc.), can I note these dependencies in such a way that easy_install will complain if they are not present and _stop_ installation? 2) If I already have a "main" script, is it possible to have that installed in /usr/local/bin (assuming my install path is "/usr/ local")? If so, how? I read this section (http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation ) but it doesn't seem to address my issue. Thanks, Mike ------------------------------------------------------ Michael Hearne mhearne(a)usgs.gov (303) 273-8620 USGS National Earthquake Information Center 1711 Illinois St. Golden CO 80401 Senior Software Engineer Synergetics, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------

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easy_install error
by Michael Hearne 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

I just tried to install the egg for Pyx, and got the error pasted below. I've contacted the mailing list for that project, and they seem to be unsure of where they can put shared data for their egg. The error message below says that I should contact the maintainers of the package (which I have done) and the EasyInstall maintainers for a workaround. So, is there a workaround for this? Thanks, Mike Hearne Running PyX-0.10/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install- _D_bmc/PyX-0.10/egg-dist-tmp-r1bHsH error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation: mkdir('/usr/ local/share/pyx',) {} The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted. This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup script by hand. Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available. ------------------------------------------------------ Michael Hearne mhearne(a)usgs.gov (303) 273-8620 USGS National Earthquake Information Center 1711 Illinois St. Golden CO 80401 Senior Software Engineer Synergetics, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------

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Chicken and egg_info.writers problem with setup.py egg_info
by Philip Jenvey 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Say you have custom egg_info.writers defined in a project's setup.py. When you use the egg_info command to restore an egg-info directory that was previously wiped out, the project's egg_info.writers aren't used. Since they aren't registered in your non-existent egg-info directory, they aren't picked up. Is it possible for the egg_info command do some boot strapping to make them work, since is has the entry_points string on hand? -- Philip Jenvey

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[issue9] Emailed Bug Report re Setuptools
by Jeff Rush 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

New submission from Jeff Rush <jeff(a)taupro.com>: a test bug report re setuptools of the new tracker instance. ---------- messages: 14 nosy: jrush status: unread title: Emailed Bug Report re Setuptools _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue9> _______________________________________________

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