At 01:09 PM 11/4/2005 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote:
Well, like I said, any custom command. These just inherit from setuptools.Command, implementing the standard initialize_options/finalize_options/run methods. I even tried having my custom command recursively call "egg_info" (with get_finalized_command), but because the error is signaled before I get as far as .run() (where I put the egg_info call) it doesn't help. Maybe I could use another method that is invoked earlier.
Though now I can't reproduce it; maybe this was fixed in 0.6a7?
Dunno. As I mentioned on the Turbogears list, the problem isn't going to happen if your source code is in a subdirectory of the one containing setup.py. Perhaps you've changed layouts? In any case, as I mentioned on the Turbogears list, I'm going to try to put in some code to detect whether there is a "broken egg" in the working set and monkeypatch its 'version' attribute to work around this bootstrapping problem. That should make it more robust and eliminate the need to include any of the .egg-info files in Subversion, at least for most normal projects. (Setuptools is an oddity in that it defines entry points that it then uses while building itself! Its .egg-info/entry_points.txt file is therefore not optional. But the need for this sort of self-bootstrapping setup process should be extremely rare.)