[XML-SIG] Installation trouble on OS X

[Gary Robinson]

Thanks Ryan!

will darwinports work to install pyxml for the apple-supplied version of
Python, or does it expect a darwinports-supplied python? (I notice that fink
tends to put things in its own locations, which are sometimes incompatible
with the locations non-fink packages expect...)

Which brings me also to my other question, when I run setup.py for a
package, does it move it automatically find the right directory to put the
files into, no matter where I ran it from?

--Gary

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> From: Ryan Wilcox <ryanwilcox@mac.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 23:26:06 -0400
> To: Gary Robinson <grobinson@transpose.com>, xml-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re: [XML-SIG] Installation trouble on OS X
> 
> On 5/13/03, at 9:21 PM, Gary Robinson said:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm trying to install PyXML-0.8.2 on OS X. I think I've located a bug in the
>> installer.
>> 
>> I'm running 
>> 
>>    python setup.py install
>> 
>> I get the error:
>> 
>> % python setup.py install
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "setup.py", line 58, in ?
>>    if sys.platform[:6] == "darwin" and \
>> NameError: name 'distutils' is not defined
> 
> Yup, I get this error too.
> 
> I believe you're correct in how to fix it.
> 
> BTW: I did this work for Darwin Ports maybe a month back. Darwin Ports makes
> it
> pretty much braindead to install PyXML ('cause you also should install xpat,
> etc). (It's a package manager, like Fink)
> 
> http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/.
> 
> This has also been discussed in the archives a few times...
> 
> Good luck,
> -Ryan
> 
> Who recommends downloading Darwin Ports, even if to just get my patch file for
> setup.py ;)
> 
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