On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:45:58 +0200, Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek@gmail.com wrote:
That's not distutils fault, neither easy_install one.
"appscript" should provide a binary distribution for Windows (it does for Mac OS if you look at the pypi repo) Since it doesn't, easy_install grabs the source distro, which is the best behavior I can think of, then tries to compile it.
The error message is pretty explicit by the way
It's good that you are seeing the challenges from a user perspective.
These are only tests I am doing on random packages and it doesn't worry me too much if they don't work.
But I think there is much to be done to smooth things out...
Assigning all blame to the developers isn't what I'm doing. As I am finding it hard to build and test on all platforms myself. Needless to say it is something that distutils imho should be aiming for.
David