On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:45:39PM +0200, Helge Stenstr?m wrote:
> "Mark Wendell" <mark dot wendell at gmail dot com> said:
> >The current python version installed by setup is 2.5. However, it
> >looks like the pygtk setup package wants to install itself in
> >/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages, even if that lib doesn't originally
> >exist. For example, installing pygtk through the installer actually
> >created /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages, and put the pygtk stuff
> >there. The workaround for now is to roll back to python2.4, and
> >everything seems to work fine.
>
> It's the same for me. Actually,
> /programs/cygwin/lib/python2.5/site-packages is empty, except for a
> README file.
Did you read the above mentioned README? It states the following:
This directory exists so that 3rd party packages can be installed
here.
> This is a general problem with Python, not with pygtk in particular.
The simplest solution is for the pygtk maintainer to build against the
latest Python and release a new package.
Jason
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