[Python-Dev] Package install failures in 2.6.3 (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Oct 5 17:44:40 CEST 2009

On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

If, as I hope, the answer to that is "yes", then I strongly support releasing a fixed setuptools instead of reverting the change to Python. Yes it does.

Excellent, thanks.

The fix makes sure buildext.getextfilename still works as it is supposed (just returning the extension of a filename depending on the environment) under all versions,

and continues to do extra work for the Setuptools internal needs when it is called by Setuptools itself on various places. It's two lines in Setuptools. But beware that a new Setuptools release might take a few months and maybe will never happen. That is why a suggested solution was to install Distribute, because it addresses among other bug fixes, this one.

I think we have two other choices.

  1. PJE releases a new version of setuptools that fixes this problem.

  2. We (a.k.a. Tarek with our blessing) hijacks the setuptools name
    (e.g. on cheeseshop) and releases a new version

I still hope #2 happens, but let's have a deadline for when the more
drastic measures will be taken.

-Barry

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