[Distutils] find_on_path permission denied

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:52 AM 11/8/2007 -0800, Dave Grote wrote:
>This error is similar to the error reported in
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2006-July/006551.html. In
>a response to that message,
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2006-July/006552.html, a
>comment was made that permission problems would be handled more
>gracefully. Has this not yet been implemented?

Apparently not.  ;)


>  I am using
>setuptools-0.6c3-py2.5.egg, python2.5 on FC7. This is of course easy
>enough for me to get around, but I thought this would be good to report.

Thanks for the reminder.