On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:42:12 +0200, andy nicholson <intothemist@gmail.com> wrote:
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I get another error for Twisted : Searching for Twisted>=2.5 Reading http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/ Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Twisted/ Reading http://twistedmatrix.com/ Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Twisted/2.5.0 Best match: Twisted 2.5.0 Downloading http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/2.5/Twisted-2.5.0.tar.bz2 Processing Twisted-2.5.0.tar.bz2 Running Twisted-2.5.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-c7WTc2/Twisted-2.5.0/egg-dist-tmp-hIcXuu usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help
error: invalid command 'bdist_egg' Error: Subprocess exited with result 1 for project core error: Setup script exited with 1
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any hints? thanks
setuptools is not compatible with Twisted 2.5: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/1286 This could be fixed by making changes to Twisted's setup.py (as someone has tried to do for #1286). Other than this, I don't think there's anything you can do to make it work. Jean-Paul