[Mailman-Developers] Help regarding an error during installation

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Mar 12 11:21:52 EST 2016


Abhilash Raj writes:
 > On 03/10/2016 07:18 AM, Daman Singh wrote:

 > > When i run buildout command i get an error saying,"no module
 > > named 'zlib'" but on running ipython, when i import zlib it works
 > > all right.
 > 
 > When running buildout in mailman-bundler, it generally creates a
 > virtualenv of its own, which might not have 'zlib not installed in
 > it.

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me, as zlib is in the stdlib, and
therefore should be installed if Python is.  Something weird is going
on here, such as crossing PYTHON_PATHs.

I'm beginning to agree with Simon: unless your project is to *fix
bundler*, developers should avoid bundler for now.



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