April 10, 2006
6:32 p.m.
On 4/10/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
Hm. That seems odd. It should just install itself. Have you tried running "ez_setup.py --allow-hosts=None -f. setuptools"?
I tried -f . but missed --allow-hosts=None. No time to try it right now, but I'll give it a go later. (Just for completeness - see below).
At the risk of going on about it, this is far messier than the traditional "python setup.py bdist_wininst" and run the installer...
That actually works now with setuptools-based packages, by the way. [...] It's quite safe to do that; setuptools now fully supports bdist_wininst.
That's brilliant news - I thought I saw some egg-info directories appear, but I hadn't understood the significance. Thanks, Paul.