[Pythonmac-SIG] [pyobjc] FYI: Build error; setuptools egg missing

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 9-aug-2006, at 10:23, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Michael Glassford wrote:
>
>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>> On Aug 8, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Michael Glassford wrote:
>>>> I just got the PyObjC trunk from svn. When I try to build it
>>>> ("$PYTHON
>>>> setup.py build"), I get the error at the end of this message. The
>>>> specified url,
>>>> "http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools/
>>>> setuptools-0.6c1-py2.5.egg",
>>>>   is in fact invalid: there's no setuptools directory.
>>> You need to manually install setuptools 0.7 from the trunk when
>>> using  Python 2.5.
>>> http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools
>>
>> I did this, and also downloaded and installed bdist_mpkg-0.4.2 as
>> that seemed to be necessary. Now when I run "python setup.py
>> install" for pyobjc I get:
>>
>> """
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "setup.py", line 732, in <module>
>>     dependency_links = [],
>>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
>> python2.5/distutils/core.py", line 112, in setup
>>     _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
>>   File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/setuptools/dist.py", line
>> 219, in __init__
>>   File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/setuptools/dist.py", line
>> 243, in fetch_build_eggs
>>   File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/pkg_resources.py", line
>> 487, in resolve
>> pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (bdist-mpkg 0.4.2.dev-r0 (/Library/
>> Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-
>> packages/bdist_mpkg-0.4.2.dev_r0-py2.5.egg), Requirement.parse
>> ('bdist-mpkg>=0.4.2'))
>> """
>>
>> It appears to be saying I need bdist-mpkg 0.4.2 or greater, but
>> since that's what I just installed I'm not sure what the problem is.
>
> If you look at version of the egg you installed, it's "0.4.2.dev_r0".
> That compares as less-than 0.4.2.
>
> Apparently there's a problem with the way the source release of
> bdist_mpkg was tagged. I'll upload another one later on in the week,
> or you can fix it yourself by removing the setup.cfg before
> installing bdist_mpkg (though it's entirely likely that other
> dependencies will also have the same issue).

Another option is to install the version in the repository, that seems  
to work just fine ;-).

Ronald

>
> -bob
>
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