On Mar 3, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Robert Leftwich wrote:

In an attempt to solve this problem and get Pylons working again I've spent the last 2hrs trying various approaches - ending up with deleting everything even remotely connected to my app and Pylons from the site-packages, cleaning up easy-install.pth to remove all references, deleting all eggs - basically everything I could find, even to the point of blowing away ez- setup.py.

I'm trying to reproduce this problem, clearing Paste and running easy_install appears to fetch it all properly. I've done this on several different machines (FreeBSD 4.2, FreeBSD 5.2, OSX 10.4), I can't seem to reproduce it anywhere. I'm cc'ing dist-utils on this as it appears to be an issue with setuptools.

Running python ez_setup.py Pylons==dev results in:

... (some successful installs elided)

Installed /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PasteScript-0.5dev_r4816- py2.4.egg Searching for PasteDeploy==dev,>=0.5dev-r4624 Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/PasteDeploy/ Reading http://pythonpaste.org/deploy/ Best match: PasteDeploy dev Downloading http://svn.pythonpaste.org/Paste/Deploy/ trunk#egg=PasteDeploy-dev Doing subversion checkout from http://svn.pythonpaste.org/Paste/ Deploy/trunk to /tmp/easy_install-9WT2is/trunk Processing trunk Running setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-9WT2is/trunk/egg-dist-tmp-s4UzvR warning: manifest_maker: standard file not found: should have one of README, README.txt warning: no files found matching 'docs/*.html' warning: no previously-included files found matching 'docs/rebuild' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- CONFLICT WARNING:

The following modules or packages have the same names as modules or packages being installed, and will be *before* the installed packages in Python's search path. You MUST remove all of the relevant files and directories before you will be able to use the package(s) you are installing:

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PasteScript-0.5dev_r4816- py2.4.egg/paste

Note: you can attempt this installation again with EasyInstall, and use either the --delete-conflicting (-D) option or the --ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk option, to either delete the above files and directories, or to ignore the conflicts, respectively. Note that if you ignore the conflicts, the installed package(s) may not work. Running with -D succeeds (sort of), except that doing a "paster create --template=pylons test" fails with:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/paster", line 5, in ? pkg_resources.run_script('PasteScript==0.5dev-r4816', 'paster') File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a11dev_r42684- py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 407, in run_script self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a11dev_r42684- py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1043, in run_script execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PasteScript-0.5dev_r4816- py2.4.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/paster", line 17, in ? from paste.script import command ImportError: No module named script

I've tried all the combinations I can think of (using setuptools a10 and dev as shown above), easy_install and ez_setup.py, even installing the Paste* dev releases directly using easy_install, but all w/o success.

Can anyone offer any alternative approaches to getting Pylons to work again?

Ok, I'm not sure how this is happening but my guess is that for some bizarre reason PasteScript was seen as a conflict to PasteDeploy. When you ran with -D, it of course happily blew away PasteScript during the PasteDeploy installation. So of course, when paster tries to use something from PasteScript, there is no longer any PasteScript registered as being around anymore thus it can't be imported. Perhaps try installing just PasteScript: easy_install -U PasteScript==dev Then run paster again? Alternatively, if something is borked in your setuptools settings somewhere, which cause PasteDeploy to think PasteScript was in conflict... hopefully one of the distutils guys can think of either a reason that would happen, or how you could prevent it from occuring. Hope that helps, Ben