New submission from htgoebel : I'm installing a development egg like this:: PYTHONPATH=.:$PYTHONPATH python setup_.py develop --install-dir . --script-dir . Now when re-running the command above, it will fail:: File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1072, in safe_name File "/usr/lib/python2.5/re.py", line 150, in sub return _compile(pattern, 0).sub(repl, string, count) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/re.py", line 230, in _compile p = _cache.get(cachekey) RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp This seams to be a problem with *.egg-link. If I add these lines to teh fron tom my setup.py, re-running is fine: import glob, os for fn in glob.glob('*.egg-link'): os.remove(fn) ---------- messages: 153 nosy: htgoebel priority: bug status: unread title: development egg: recusion to deep when re-running setup.py develop _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue40 _______________________________________________