[Distutils] easy_install doesn't recognize valid distutils Windows installers

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Sep 19 21:15:07 CEST 2006


At 02:59 PM 9/19/2006 -0400, Matt Good wrote:
>On Windows "easy_install trac" fails with the error:
>"trac-0.10b1.win32.exe is not a valid distutils Windows .exe"
>
>http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/3750
>
>The problem is with easy_install locating the config information
>embedded in the file.  The following patch works with the Trac
>installer, but I don't know if it will break support for other
>installers:

What version of Python was the .exe built with?



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