[SciPy-dev] Problems packaging GSoC statsmodels code as scikit

[Robert Kern]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 19:09, Skipper Seabold<jsseabold at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been trying to package the models code using the scikits
> template and have run into a problem.
>
> On linux, both Kubuntu 64-bit and openSuSE 32-bit, I can install the
> package (sudo python setup.py install), but when I do
>
> from scikits import statsmodels
> statsmodels.test()

Known issue. setuptools installs files with the executable flag set
(for quite silly reasons), and nosetests refuses to load such files by
default. nose 0.11 has an option to disable that behavior.

-- 
Robert Kern

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