easy_install buildbot fails on win32

[epu]

When trying to use easy_install to get a win32 buildbot, easy_install reports that it failed to make eggs.

C:PerforceBranchesepurinsmainCodesourceIntegrationPython>c:Python25Scriptseasy_install.exe
buildbot-0.7.7
Processing buildbot-0.7.7
Running setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir C:PerforceBranchesepurinsmainCodesourceIntegrationPythonuildbot-0.7.7egg-dist-tmp-_eobh0
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
buildbot.clients.debug: module references __file__
buildbot.scripts.runner: module references __file__
buildbot.status.web.baseweb: module references __file__
buildbot.test.runutils: module references __file__
buildbot.test.test_maildir: module references __file__
buildbot.test.test_mailparse: module references __file__
buildbot.test.test_shell: module references __file__
buildbot.test.test_slavecommand: module references __file__
No eggs found in C:PerforceBranchesepurinsmainCodesourceIntegrationPythonuildbot-0.7.7egg-dist-tmp-_eobh0 (setup script problem?)

This is using activestate python

ActivePython 2.5.1.1 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May  1 2007, 17:47:05) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

setup.py install works ok.

Currently, the frontpage makes it seem like easy_install works out of the box, which is not accurate. It would be cool if this were directly added to a win32 wiki section with a workaround, or to get eggs building ok on win32.

[epu]

setuptools version:

>>> import setuptools
>>> setuptools.__version__
'0.6c8'
>>>

[zooko]

It looks like your cut and paste might have gotten line-wrapped. Was the command the you ran:

C:PerforceBranchesepurinsmainCodesourceIntegrationPython>c:Python25Scriptseasy_install.exe buildbot-0.7.7

or

C:PerforceBranchesepurinsmainCodesourceIntegrationPython>c:Python25Scriptseasy_install.exe

?

[epu]

Yeah, it got line wrapped. It was

c:Python25Scriptseasy_install.exe buildbot-0.7.7

where buildbot-0.7.7 was a local folder of source files. (Was trying to narrow it down)

this occurs for me if I use the network too, ie:

c:Python25Scriptseasy_install.exe buildbot

or

c:Python25Scriptseasy_install.exe buildbot==0.7.7

[zooko]

I can reproduce this problem here. I'll work on it.

[tarek]

Make it an egg, and it will work (that's a one-liner change, by calling setuptools' setup function instead of distutils.core one in setup.py)

That's what we did to make easy_install work under windows :

 http://release.ingeniweb.com/third-party-dist/buildbot-0.7.7-py2.4.egg

[zooko]

I've mailed a patch to Brian Warner that does this. If he doesn't tell me not to after the imminent buildbot release I'll apply that patch to trunk.

[epu]

Yay! Thanks for the tips and fix. I <3 buildbot and crew. Looking forward to easy_install.

[dustin]

I think this got committed, right?

[nbolton]

I'm unable to use easy_install buildbot with Python 2.4, 2.5 or 2.6 on Windows XP x86. Each attempt results in:

-- snip -- Best match: buildbot 0.8.0 -- snip -- No eggs found in c:docume~1 icklocals~1 empeasy_install-ryzhrmuildbot-0.8 .0egg-dist-tmp-u6s2hw (setup script problem?)

[dustin]

I just verified that it does work for posix systems, which is good :)

The setup.py seems to be very careful to *avoid* using setuptools' setup(), and I don't understand exactly why that's the case.

I wonder what zooko's patch was? Why did he email it instead of attaching it?

Hopefully some folks from the WindowsProject can take a look at this

[dustin]

Looks like there's nothing to do here, so I'm closing this..