[Pythonmac-SIG] [pyobjc] FYI: Build error; setuptools egg missing

[Michael Glassford]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Michael Glassford wrote:
> 
>> I just got the PyObjC trunk from svn. When I try to build it ("$PYTHON
>> setup.py build"), I get the error at the end of this message. The
>> specified url,
>> "http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools/ 
>> setuptools-0.6c1-py2.5.egg",
>>   is in fact invalid: there's no setuptools directory.
> 
> You need to manually install setuptools 0.7 from the trunk when using  
> Python 2.5.
> 
> http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools

I did this, and also downloaded and installed bdist_mpkg-0.4.2 as that 
seemed to be necessary. Now when I run "python setup.py install" for 
pyobjc I get:

"""
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "setup.py", line 732, in <module>
     dependency_links = [],
   File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/core.py", 
line 112, in setup
     _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
   File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 219, 
in __init__
   File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 243, 
in fetch_build_eggs
   File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/pkg_resources.py", line 487, in 
resolve
pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (bdist-mpkg 0.4.2.dev-r0 
(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bdist_mpkg-0.4.2.dev_r0-py2.5.egg), 
Requirement.parse('bdist-mpkg>=0.4.2'))
"""

It appears to be saying I need bdist-mpkg 0.4.2 or greater, but since 
that's what I just installed I'm not sure what the problem is.

Mike