Re: [Distutils] Question re: workingenv.py and cli.exe
Jos Yule wrote:
I didn't know where else to address this - is there a mailing list or group which would be better suited to this email?
The distutils-sig group (copied) might be good. Especially when I'm unsure of the answer like now ;)
First - thanks for workingenv! Very helpful.
I've run into a bug when using it to install Pylons on a WinXP box, using easy_install.exe.
When doing a "easy_install Pylons", after creating a new workingenv and activating it, it gets hung up on a missing cli.exe from "<workingenv dir>/lib/python2.4/setuptools", which on my computer is simply a "__init__.py" and "__init__.pyc" file. I've copied the cli.exe from "<workingenv dir>/\lib\python2.4\setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg\setuptools".
Anyway, it still seems to work, this is more of an FYI.
Hi Jos. I'm not really sure what cli.exe is, but then I don't really use Windows. Maybe someone here can explain more? Hrm... or maybe my monkeypatch of setuptools is breaking the attempt to find cli.exe... :( (I still really wish I didn't have to monkeypatch setuptools, but I do) -- Ian Bicking | ianb@colorstudy.com | http://blog.ianbicking.org
At 09:59 AM 1/16/2007 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
Jos Yule wrote:
I didn't know where else to address this - is there a mailing list or group which would be better suited to this email?
The distutils-sig group (copied) might be good. Especially when I'm unsure of the answer like now ;)
First - thanks for workingenv! Very helpful.
I've run into a bug when using it to install Pylons on a WinXP box, using easy_install.exe.
When doing a "easy_install Pylons", after creating a new workingenv and activating it, it gets hung up on a missing cli.exe from "<workingenv dir>/lib/python2.4/setuptools", which on my computer is simply a "__init__.py" and "__init__.pyc" file. I've copied the cli.exe from "<workingenv dir>/\lib\python2.4\setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg\setuptools".
Anyway, it still seems to work, this is more of an FYI.
Hi Jos. I'm not really sure what cli.exe is, but then I don't really use Windows.
cli.exe and gui.exe are the files setuptools uses to generate command-line and GUI script wrappers on Windows. easy_install.exe, for example, is just a copy of cli.exe. The way these files work is that they figure out what name they were invoked under, and then they find the adjacent corresponding .py file (e.g. easy_install-script.py), and run it, using the information in the #! line. Anyway, setuptools needs to have the .exe files in order to do this.
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