At 11:02 PM 4/10/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
I'm trying to install a setuptools-based package (RuleDispatch) but there are no suitable binary eggs on the net (Python 2.5 on Windows). So I'm effectively building all of my own eggs and installing as if I have no net access [1]. According to http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall,
"""If you can't use APS, or don't have internet access at all, you will need to first download the appropriate .egg file from the setuptools PyPI page using a computer with internet access. Place the egg in the same directory as ez_setup.py on the target computer before running it."""
I tried this, but I can't get it to work - ez_setup.py still tries to go to CheeseShop. Do I need some command line flags not mentioned on the EasyInstall page? I've tried the most obvious ones, but to no avail.
Hm. That seems odd. It should just install itself. Have you tried running "ez_setup.py --allow-hosts=None -f. setuptools"?
Actually, I got somewhere, by building a setuptools egg, adding it to PYTHONPATH, then running ez_setup.py. That "installed" setuptools, but didn't move it anywhere - it's still in my temporary "Data" directory.
From there, easy_install -f . RuleDispatch seems to be getting somewhere (I now need to build PyProtocols, but that's OK). But still nothing's getting copied into site-packages.
I'm clearly doing something wrong, but I have no idea what.
Me either. I'm also not sure how to go about reproducing the problem.
At the risk of going on about it, this is far messier than the traditional "python setup.py bdist_wininst" and run the installer...
That actually works now with setuptools-based packages, by the way.
(BTW, what I ultimately want to do is to try out RuleDispatch on a machine which doesn't have net access. The rest is just annoying cruft. For now, I got this by building a wininst installer for setuptools, installing it, building wininst installers for pyprotocols and ruledispatch, uninstalling setuptools, and then using the wininst installers - as neither package uses setuptools at runtime...)
It's quite safe to do that; setuptools now fully supports bdist_wininst.