Re: [Distutils] Availability of setuptools installer for python2.6?
At 12:05 PM 10/6/2008 -0700, Chris Mahan wrote:
Phillip,
At <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools there is no MS windows installer for python 2.6.
Do you have an idea of when that might be available?
No, it'll likely be a while before I'm doing anything with 2.6. Ian Bicking now has privs for the setuptools PyPI entry, so perhaps he could upload one. (There actually isn't anything Windows-specific about it; all the .exe installers that I upload are actually built on a Linux machine.)
2008/10/6 Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>:
At 12:05 PM 10/6/2008 -0700, Chris Mahan wrote:
Phillip,
At <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools there is no MS windows installer for python 2.6.
Do you have an idea of when that might be available?
No, it'll likely be a while before I'm doing anything with 2.6. Ian Bicking now has privs for the setuptools PyPI entry, so perhaps he could upload one. (There actually isn't anything Windows-specific about it; all the .exe installers that I upload are actually built on a Linux machine.)
This is a really frustrating aspect of setuptools, that pure-Python packages produce version-specific installers. I'm sure I've seen an explanation of why this is necessary somewhere before, but I can't recall precisely where (and I don't really have time to wade through all the setuptools documentation to see if it's in there - it wasn't obvious from reading the contents). Can anyone give me a quick pointer to the explanation? Thanks, Paul
Paul Moore wrote:
2008/10/6 Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>:
At 12:05 PM 10/6/2008 -0700, Chris Mahan wrote:
Phillip,
At <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools there is no MS windows installer for python 2.6.
Do you have an idea of when that might be available? No, it'll likely be a while before I'm doing anything with 2.6. Ian Bicking now has privs for the setuptools PyPI entry, so perhaps he could upload one. (There actually isn't anything Windows-specific about it; all the .exe installers that I upload are actually built on a Linux machine.)
This is a really frustrating aspect of setuptools, that pure-Python packages produce version-specific installers. I'm sure I've seen an explanation of why this is necessary somewhere before, but I can't recall precisely where (and I don't really have time to wade through all the setuptools documentation to see if it's in there - it wasn't obvious from reading the contents). Can anyone give me a quick pointer to the explanation?
.pyc files are minor-version-specific. Eggs contain .pyc files. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco
On Oct 6, 2008, at 16:43 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
This is a really frustrating aspect of setuptools, that pure-Python packages produce version-specific installers.
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.pyc files are minor-version-specific. Eggs contain .pyc files.
That's one of the advantages that .py's have over .pyc's in eggs. For example, Tahoe ships a bundled version of the setuptools bootstrap egg in which I just manually deleted the .pyc's and renamed it from "setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg" to "setuptools-0.6c8.egg": http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/misc/dependencies?rev=2943 Perhaps this will cause some problems for us (what are those .exe's in there for, anyway? cli.exe and gui.exe), but it has worked fine so far. See also: http://allmydata.org/trac/setuptools/ticket/5 # binary eggs should come with .py files by default, rather than .pyc files Note that this URL is to an interim issue tracker that I set up a while back, before the official setuptools issue tracker [1] was set up. So don't post any comments to that ticket -- instead if you think it is an issue then post a new ticket on the official setuptools tracker and/or the new "distribute" project... Hey! Where's the issue tracker for the new "distribute" project? Regards, Zooko [1] http://bugs.python.org/setuptools --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month
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