Re: [Distutils] Twisted and easy_install
At 07:05 AM 2/5/2006 -0800, Jay Parlar wrote:
I'm having trouble doing an install of the newest Twisted from the Cheeseshop, using easy_install. I took a quick look through the archives of distutils-sig, and couldn't find anything. I'm running on OS X 10.3.9, latest version of setuptools (did an 'easy_install -U setuptools' right before I tried installing Twisted). I've pasted the result below. Any thoughts? [...] AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'name'
Twisted does some interesting mangling of the build_ext process in order to support optional extensions, that are only determined at build time. I've been meaning to add a facility to do this in setuptools, but it's not done yet, and in any case Twisted would have to *use* that facility in order for it to work. I'm afraid Twisted isn't supportable by easy_install at the present time. When I do add support for optional extensions, I plan to look carefully at what Twisted is doing in order to make sure that the facility I add will be able to meet their needs.
On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 07:05 AM 2/5/2006 -0800, Jay Parlar wrote:
I'm having trouble doing an install of the newest Twisted from the Cheeseshop, using easy_install. I took a quick look through the archives of distutils-sig, and couldn't find anything. I'm running on OS X 10.3.9, latest version of setuptools (did an 'easy_install -U setuptools' right before I tried installing Twisted). I've pasted the result below. Any thoughts? [...] AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'name'
Twisted does some interesting mangling of the build_ext process in order to support optional extensions, that are only determined at build time. I've been meaning to add a facility to do this in setuptools, but it's not done yet, and in any case Twisted would have to *use* that facility in order for it to work. I'm afraid Twisted isn't supportable by easy_install at the present time.
Not only that, but the top-level script for Twisted isn't distutils based. It is a script that invokes several setup.py files for each of the subprojects if given "build" or "install" as options, and otherwise takes totally different arguments. Even if it did install with easy_install it would be a little misleading since Twisted requires Zope.Interface and has a bunch of extras (like SSL or serial support). Twisted really could use a good refactor to support setuptools, but the core team isn't interested in doing that. I believe Zope.Interface is not compatible with setuptools also. I'm not sure why... I think it's the distribution name or something. -bob
On 2/5/06, Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> wrote:
On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
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Twisted does some interesting mangling of the build_ext process in order to support optional extensions, that are only determined at build time. I've been meaning to add a facility to do this in setuptools, but it's not done yet, and in any case Twisted would have to *use* that facility in order for it to work. I'm afraid Twisted isn't supportable by easy_install at the present time.
Not only that, but the top-level script for Twisted isn't distutils based. It is a script that invokes several setup.py files for each of the subprojects if given "build" or "install" as options, and otherwise takes totally different arguments.
Even if it did install with easy_install it would be a little misleading since Twisted requires Zope.Interface and has a bunch of extras (like SSL or serial support). Twisted really could use a good refactor to support setuptools, but the core team isn't interested in doing that.
I believe Zope.Interface is not compatible with setuptools also. I'm not sure why... I think it's the distribution name or something.
That's more or less what I figured. I mostly wanted to post the error message because it's non-obvious what went wrong, and wanted to make sure someone in the know saw it. I think I still remember how to install packages the old fashioned way, something or other about 'setup.py install' :) Jay P.
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