[Distutils] A release to at least stop crashing on Subversion 1.5 would be nice

Christian Zagrodnick cz at gocept.com
Tue Jul 29 08:38:16 CEST 2008


On 2008-07-24 19:59:11 +0200, kiorky <kiorky at cryptelium.net> said:

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> Arlo Belshee a =E9crit :
>> In command/sdist.py, line 90 refers to a global log function which does=
>  not exist. Thus, instead of logging a warning about not understanding Su=
> bversion, setuptools crashes.
>> =20
>> The default setup scripts for Pylons (and probably others) use svn revi=
> sion tagging. Thus, the following causes a crash:
>> =20
>> easy_install Pylons
>> paster create -t Pylons proj
>> setup.py develop
>> =20
>> And, since the user hasn't done any config (or anything but follow a tu=
> torial), he isn't able to easily figure out what went wrong. Also, since =
> setuptools was likely installed automatically for him via the egg in the =
> cheeseshop, he isn't aware of anything that may be in dev for setuptools.=
>  A new user's likely response is to get frustrated for 15 minutes, then m=
> ove on to another web framework / language.
>> =20
>> Even if you don't provide svn 1.5 support, can you at least post an egg=
>  that won't crash in the presence of svn 1.5?
>> =20
>> Thanks.
>> =20
>> Arlo
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> You can easy_install -U "setuptools =3D=3D dev"
> It is fixed on trunk as far as i know.

That does not really help with an empty python. I'm not going to 
install anything with easy_install to have no sideeffects when using 
buildout.


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