[Distutils] imho Distutils should stop this from happening to poor users....

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:26 AM, David Lyon <david.lyon at preisshare.net>wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> Here's a package installation error message that's just plain scary
> for the average user.
>
> imho Distutils should have checks to stock packages requiring a C
> compiler from being uploaded. It isn't "right" to expect that
> from users. ie They should get the .pyd files.


That's not distutils fault, neither easy_install one.

"appscript" should provide a binary distribution for Windows (it does for
Mac OS if you look at the pypi repo)
Since it doesn't, easy_install grabs the source distro, which is the best
behavior I can think of,
then tries to compile it.

The error message is pretty explicit by the way

Tarek
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