[Distutils] Package install failures in 2.6.3 - setuptools vs Distribute

[Lennart Regebro]

2009/10/3 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org>:
> I'm afraid there is going to be a small deluge of very confused users
> who will end up needing to install Distribute but only when they
> eventually figure out why some packages with C extensions mysteriously
> no longer install after they upgrade to python 2.6.3.  For example,
> following the package instructions to use setuptools easy_install, an
> easy_install lxml fails with 2.6.3 with the very cryptic:
>
> File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/setuptools/command/build_ext.py",
> line 85, in get_ext_filename KeyError: 'etree'
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1512530/cant-install-lxml-python-2-6-3
> -osx-10-6-snow-leopard
>
> Appscript is another package that fails similarly.  There must be others.

I can confirm this. It seems to be packages that use c-extensions.
zope.interface also breaks.

>  $ curl -O http://nightly.ziade.org/distribute_setup.py
>  $ python distribute_setup.py

Distribute doesn't break, though, so "sudo easy_install Distribute"
seems to be enough. :-)

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