On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:03 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
A library that has problems being deployed in a zipfile will have problems in other places besides easy_install.
My problems with libraries in zipfiles have generally revolved around limited user accounts that cannot handle the unzip. A normal python installation provides files than can be used directly. So I've configured the distutils configuration file to always unzip. I've found it easier for the systems I administer to force all installations to be unzipped rather than trying to find those accounts that will have problems with zipped libraries. These errors can be pretty mysterious to a sysadmin who is not fluent in Python. It can also be pretty embarrassing when the test system works and the live system fails because of the change in user account. If there is a better/smarter approach for installing zipped libraries I'd be happy to use it. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://dlslug.org/library.html http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug