Scott Talbert <s...@techie.net> writes: > The source package in question is wxpython4.0. The reason I use > easy_install is for installing the python2 version of the module as an > egg.
Okay, so from that I understand that the Debian package is not invoking ‘easy_install’ to fetch files from the network. >From what I remember, it is surprisingly difficult to convince ‘easy_install’ that it should never access the network, even when you think you're only performing local operations. Probably it's best to test this in a virtual machine isolated from the network, to be sure it succeeds. > The reason I do this is because wxpython3.0 occupies the 'namespace' > for the wx module for python2. In other words, both wxpython3.0 and > wxpython4.0 have a 'wx' module for python2. In order to avoid a > conflict, I install the wxpython4.0 version as an egg. How does that avoid the conflict — that is, what is the effect of installing the egg such that a namespace conflict is avoided? I ask because it is likely that today's Python has a better way of achieving the effect you're wanting, so that ‘easy_install’ is not needed. -- \ “If we ruin the Earth, there is no place else to go. This is | `\ not a disposable world, and we are not yet able to re-engineer | _o__) other planets.” —Carl Sagan, _Cosmos_, 1980 | Ben Finney
