On Oct 26, 12:35 pm, owl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love easy_install. > > I love watching it search and complete. > It's when it doesn't complete that causes me grief. > I don't program a lot these days and am relatively new to python but I > often wind up installing packages on both unix and windows machines > and often the 'build' part of the install fails with not being able to > find the compiler or compile problems. > > If there are any articles/pointers that talk about this, i.e. how to > troubleshoot, I'd love to know. > > If I was writing such an article I'd start with: > - how easy_install uses distutils (even this is an assumption on my > part) > - where it looks in the env. for stuff on both unix/linux/windows > - what files to tweak to help it find stuff if your env. is different. > - i.e. can I config some file to have packages not try and compile but > use pure python if possible? > - i.e. w/o speedups > - how to work around problems such as easy_install failing because a > site is down > - i.e. how to manually download, 'unpack' & 'build' > - since packages fail to build, how to set things up to download & > keep things around when they fail so you can tinker with it until you > get it working! > > I love python, and nothing against impure packages, but when they > cause problems it starts to 'tarnish the dream' of an agnostic > language. > > Thoughts?
You can check out the "official" website on Easy Install: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall More informative links follow: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cppeak3.html http://wiki.vpslink.com/index.php?title=Python_easy_install http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b23.html As for doing your own compiling, I have some instructions for using the open source compiler, MinGW, on my website: http://www.pythonlibrary.org/distribution.htm I should research this and add it to the page. But if you come up with any tips or tricks, let me know and I'll put them on there. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
