[pypy-dev] Bugs in using `easy_install` in PyPy 1.6 on Windows

[Ram Rachum]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com>wrote:

2011/10/6 Ram Rachum <ram at rachum.com>:
> > I remember that I had trouble using `easy_install` when I was just
> setting
> > up PyPy 1.6 on my XP box.
>
> > I had no time to document it at that time, but I believe my workflow was
> to
> > download and run distribute_setup.py, then do `easy_install pip`, and
> then
> > `pip install nose`, and it didn't work so I resorted to downloading
> tarballs
> > manually and running `setup.py install`, which worked.
>
> > Can you add this to the test suite? I think it's something that needs to
> be
> > tested automatically before any PyPy release on any platform.
>
> I don't think there are tests for an "installed" interpreter at the moment.
> Do you remember the issues you had at the time?
>
> --
> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
>

I reproduced it now on a VM:

1. Install Distribute using `distribute_setup.py`.

2. `easy_install pip`, the `pip` script does get installed, but not
properly:

Searching for pip
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
Reading http://www.pip-installer.org
Reading http://pip.openplans.org
Best match: pip 1.0.2
Downloading
http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.0.2.tar.gz#md5=47
ec6ff3f6d962696fe08d4c8264ad49
Processing pip-1.0.2.tar.gz
Running pip-1.0.2\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
c:\docume~1\admini~1\locals~1
\temp\easy_install-5ffmhm\pip-1.0.2\egg-dist-tmp-w739em
warning: no files found matching '*.html' under directory 'docs'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*.txt' found under directory
'do
cs\_build'
no previously-included directories found matching 'docs\_build\_sources'
No eggs found in
c:\docume~1\admini~1\locals~1\temp\easy_install-5ffmhm\pip-1.0.
2\egg-dist-tmp-w739em (setup script problem?)



3. `pip install nose`: You get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "app_main.py", line 53, in run_toplevel
  File "c:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\pypy-1.6\bin\pip-script.
py", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "c:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\pypy-1.6\site-packages\d
istribute-0.6.21-py2.7.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 2709, in <module>
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File "c:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\pypy-1.6\site-packages\d
istribute-0.6.21-py2.7.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 686, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "c:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\pypy-1.6\site-packages\d
istribute-0.6.21-py2.7.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
DistributionNotFound: pip==1.0.2



Any clue?
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