[Pythonmac-SIG] distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: file '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg/pkg_resources.pyc' does not exist

[Lukáš 'Spike' Polívka]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
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>  On 27 Mar, 2008, at 9:29, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>  >>>
>  >> So, in the end, Nathan was right. The following helped me:
>  >>
>  >> sys.path.insert(0, '../Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip')
>  >> # for Twisted
>  >> sys.path.insert(0, '../Resources/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload') # for
>  >> PyQt4
>  >
>  > That might help you, but leaves the bug in py2app. Phrased
>  > differently: this is a nice short-term hack, but it would be better
>  > py2app were changed to not require this hack. I'd really appreciate
>  > is some else could have a look at this, otherwise the issue will
>  > stay around until I get around fixing it which might take a while
>  > (especially because the bug for some reason doesn't affect me).
>
>  Are you by any change using the '--site-packages' option of py2app? If
>  so, you run into a (mis-)feature of setuptools: the easy_install.pth
>  file in site-packages contains an nasty hack that ensures that easy-
>  installed software is placed as early as possible on sys.path.
>
>  You could try running without it, --site-packages shouldn't be
>  necessary for a self-contained application bundle. In the longer run
>  it would be nice to change the code that --site-packages injects into
>  the .app bundle work around this "feature" of setuptools.
>
>  Ronald
Yes, you are right. Well, if I don't use --site-packages, my app
complains SIP is missing… I guess I will have to include it in the app
by some other means.

Lukáš

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