skip@pobox.com wrote:
I tried installing Myghty 0.99a using this command:
python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/mojam
(e.g., non-standard install location). It downloaded setuptools and installed a bunch of other stuff (Paste, etc), all available as eggs. Unfortunately, it didn't create packages and didn't make the pkg_resources module available. Any hints about how to get this working would be appreciated. (I have no idea what other details you'll need, never having used setuptools - directly or indirectly. Let me know if there's more I can do to explain the situation.)
I suspect it's because setuptools didn't think that /usr/local/mojam/lib/... was on the normal site path, and so .pth files aren't read from the location. And when .pth files aren't read, the eggs won't be put on the path automatically (though I don't know quite how setuptools can work at all when that happens). There's non-root installation instructions on the setuptools site (and maybe included in easy_install now?) that will create a full Python environment in a non-standard location, which would probably resolve this issue. -- Ian Bicking / ianb@colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org