[Distutils] latest setuptools release breaks Python 2 installs?

[Chris Jerdonek]

The issue tracker on PyPA's GitHub repo for the proejct seems alive and well:

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues

--Chris

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Chris Withers <chris at withers.org> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Where's the best place to report setuptools issues now?
>
> I see 25.1.2 was release today, and I've just had nightly builds of one of
> my packages fail as follows:
>
> Installing docs.
> Getting distribution for 'sphinx'.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 2271, in main
>
>   File "/opt/python/2.7.9/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in
> setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "/opt/python/2.7.9/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in
> run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "/opt/python/2.7.9/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in
> run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 409, in run
>
>   File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 645, in easy_install
>
>   File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 694, in install_item
>
>   File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 845, in install_eggs
>
>   File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/archive_util.py", line 52,
> in unpack_archive
>   File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/setuptools/archive_util.py", line 147,
> in unpack_tarfile
>   File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.9/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py",
> line 80, in join
>     path += '/' + b
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcc in position 8:
> ordinal not in range(128)
> An error occurred when trying to install Sphinx 1.4.5. Look above this
> message for any errors that were output by easy_install.
> While:
>   Installing docs.
>   Getting distribution for 'sphinx'.
> Error: Couldn't install: Sphinx 1.4.5
>
> The full log is here:
>
> https://travis-ci.org/cjw296/nose_fixes/jobs/149012793
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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