[Distutils] setuptools-0.6c5-py2.5.egg in cheeseshop seems to be broken

[Jorge Vargas]

On 2/3/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 05:18 PM 2/3/2007 -0500, Matt Good wrote:
> >On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 17:09 -0400, Jorge Vargas wrote:
> > > elpargo at notebook:~$ sh setuptools-0.6c5-py2.5.egg
> > > setuptools-0.6c5-py2.5.egg: 8: [[: not found
> > > setuptools-0.6c5-py2.5.egg is not the correct name for this egg file.
> > > Please rename it back to setuptools-0.6c5-py2.5.egg and try again.
> >
> >There was a previous mention of this on the mailing list.  The Egg uses
> >a bash-ism there, so "sh" doesn't quite work.  I don't remember if PJE
> >was going to change that in SVN, but I believe you should be able to run
> >the Egg with bash instead.
>
> That's correct; 0.6c5 actually requires bash, but 0.6c6 uses '[' instead of
> '[[' and so in theory should work with a non-bash "sh".
>
Oh I see my bad I don't read this mailing list that often I probably
scroll over it without noticing.

> If you're good with a binary editor, you could probably hack the header of
> the current .egg to work.  :)  Or at least, you could manually run the
> shell commands that are in it.
or use the old install method :)
>
>
thanks