Installing simplejson issues

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:45:09 -0300, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de>  
escribió:

>> I suggest that you remove the simplejson-xxxxxx.egg file and delete the
>> simplejson entry in easy-install.pth (both in your site-packages  
>> directory)
>> Then extract the simplejson directory from inside the original .tar.gz
>> archive into your site-packages directory (so you end up by example with
>> a .../site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py file, among others)
>> That appears to be enough; import simplejson worked fine for me.
>>
>> I hate those f****ng eggs. Ah, and I hate easy_install too.
>
> This has nothing to do with setuptools or easy_install per se. The
> author of simplejson tried to create a library that works with or
> without a C-extension. And failed.

I think that the whole approach is doomed to fail; trying to do things  
more complicated that they should be.
The pure-python part of simplejson is just a package. Copying the  
directory into site-packages is *ALL* that is required; distutils can do  
that perfectly. That's all folks!. A database or registry keeping track of  
installed product versions might be useful, too. Anything that does much  
more than that is just looking for problems; simple systems work better  
than complex ones.
In this case, there is no need to create an egg, no need to play with .pth  
files, no need to slow down the package at import time (eggs must be  
decompressed), no need to extend sys.path and slow down *all* other  
imports. I don't feel that anything is better by using eggs or  
easy_install, and at least for me, they always have given more problems  
than answers.
So, again, I hate eggs and easy_install. And I hate eggplants too.

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Gabriel Genellina