[Pythonmac-SIG] Appscript and Snow Leopard and setuptools...

[has]

On 13 Sep 2009, at 18:52, Bill Janssen wrote:

> Is it possible to disentangle appscript from setuptools?  I just
> downloaded the sources to my Snow Leopard machine, did
>
> python setup.py build
> python setup.py install
>
> which went just fine.  But then I did
>
> % python
>>>> import appscript
>
> and got this big stack trace because a ~/.python-eggs subdirectory
> wasn't accessible.  That shouldn't happen, and I'd like to remove
> any dependence on setuptools and eggs, if possible.



You can install appscript from source using plain old distutils; the  
setup.py script will use setuptools if it's available and distutils if  
not. Though if there are problems with setuptools then I'd suggest  
filing bug reports on that as well.

HTH

has
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