[Pythonmac-SIG] Leopard easy_install chokes on appscript egg

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 31 Dec, 2007, at 14:43, has wrote:

> (Profuse apologies for the late reply...)
>
> On 23 Dec 2007, at 15:23, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>>> 1. Any ideas on why it's selecting the .tar.gz version rather than
>>> the .egg? (Note: the egg was built using my own Python 2.5
>>> installation, rather than the Apple one.)
>>
>> That's a buglet in Python, fixed in what will be 2.5.2. Apple's  
>> python doesn't do universal binaries and setuptools doesn't know  
>> that an 'fat' egg will do on a 'ppc' or 'i386' platform.
>
> OK, ta. Any advice on creating .eggs that will work for 10.5's brain- 
> damaged Python install, both for PPC and i386? (While I have 10.4 on  
> both PPC and i386, I have 10.5 on i386 only.)

Patching the Makefile for python is probably the easiest way, that is  
add '-arch i386 -arch ppc' to BASECFLAGS and LDFLAGS and set  
UNIVERSALSDK to '/' (otherwise the architecture will be wrong). You  
might also have to patch distutils to work around a bug in there.

>
>
>
>>> 2. I get the above traceback when easy_install tries to use the  
>>> source-
>>> based appscript. This occurs with Leopard's own Python 2.5 and the
>>> Python 2.4 installation I keep around for testing purposes. Any
>>> guesses on what's going wrong? I'm not that familiar with setuptools
>>> and its error reporting leaves something to be desired, so I don't
>>> even know if the problem lies with it or appscript's setup.py  
>>> script.
>>
>> My guess is that this a buglet in setuptools sandboxing code. Can  
>> you build an egg using Apple's python and install that (that is run  
>> 'setup.py bdist_egg' and then install that egg.
>
>
> The following seems to work ok:
>
> cd appscript-0.18.0
> /usr/bin/python setup.py bdist_egg
> cd dist
> /usr/bin/easy_install appscript*

You might want to ask on distutils-sig at python.org about this.

Ronald
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> has
> -- 
> http://appscript.sourceforge.net
> http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org
>

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