[Distutils] sandbox trying to run things before they're installed...again?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:37 PM 3/7/2006 -0500, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
>On 3/7/06, Ben Bangert <ben at groovie.org> wrote:
> > Indeed, I just noticed that setup.py was importing version from the
> > package, and the location it was importing, then imported other stuff
> > that had the dependencies. Thanks for the pointer on what was going
> > wrong.
>
>This appears to be the general solution to that particular problem. In 
>setup.py:
>
>execfile(os.path.join("turbogears", "release.py"))
>
>or something along those lines.

That only works if 'release.py' doesn't import any dependencies.  :)

That is, the issue doesn't have anything to do with imports per se, only 
imports that cause dependencies to come into play.