[Distutils] setuptools problem?

[Thomas Heller]

Phillip J. Eby schrieb:
> At 07:37 PM 2/1/2007 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
>>Philip,
>>
>>I was trying to install yolk with
>>
>>c:\python25\python -m easy_install yolk
>>
>>(on Windows, as you can see).
>>
>>A yolk.py script is installed in c:\Python25\Scripts, but between each 
>>source line
>>there is an empty line.  In other words, line feeds are doubled each time.
>>This leads to syntax errors because continuation lines don't work any longer.
>>
>>It seems easy_install gets the newlines wrong.
> 
> Yep, the problem was exclusive to "old-style" scripts, which yolk is using 
> for some reason.  (It could just move yolk's main() function to yolklib and 
> list in the the setup script's entry points.)
> 
> It's fixed it now in SVN.
> 

and it works for me, now.  Boy, are you quick!

For my education: what are "old-style" scripts?

Thanks,
Thomas