[Distutils] latest setuptools release breaks Python 2 installs?

[Chris Withers]

Yep, file:

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/709

Chris


On 01/08/2016 22:40, Chris Jerdonek wrote:
> The issue tracker on PyPA's GitHub repo for the proejct seems alive and well:
>
> https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues
>
> --Chris
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Chris Withers <chris at withers.org> wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Where's the best place to report setuptools issues now?
>>
>> I see 25.1.2 was release today, and I've just had nightly builds of one of
>> my packages fail as follows:
>>
>> Installing docs.
>> Getting distribution for 'sphinx'.
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
>> line 2271, in main
>>
>>    File "/opt/python/2.7.9/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in
>> setup
>>      dist.run_commands()
>>    File "/opt/python/2.7.9/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in
>> run_commands
>>      self.run_command(cmd)
>>    File "/opt/python/2.7.9/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in
>> run_command
>>      cmd_obj.run()
>>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
>> line 409, in run
>>
>>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
>> line 645, in easy_install
>>
>>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
>> line 694, in install_item
>>
>>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
>> line 845, in install_eggs
>>
>>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/archive_util.py", line 52,
>> in unpack_archive
>>    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/archive_util.py", line 147,
>> in unpack_tarfile
>>    File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.9/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py",
>> line 80, in join
>>      path += '/' + b
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcc in position 8:
>> ordinal not in range(128)
>> An error occurred when trying to install Sphinx 1.4.5. Look above this
>> message for any errors that were output by easy_install.
>> While:
>>    Installing docs.
>>    Getting distribution for 'sphinx'.
>> Error: Couldn't install: Sphinx 1.4.5
>>
>> The full log is here:
>>
>> https://travis-ci.org/cjw296/nose_fixes/jobs/149012793
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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