"Duncan Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've also just spent a while getting simplejson 1.7.4 to install on a > (non- > windows) system without a C compiler. > > The trick is to unzip the tar file and then before you try to install it > delete everything in simplejson.egg-info. Then 'setup.py install' will run > to completion and while it warns about 'speedups are not enabled.' it > doesn't take it as fatal error. > > Without this step it preserves the reference to native_libs.txt in > SOURCES.txt even though the native_libs.txt file itself gets deleted.
I had no trouble getting it to install without the speedups -- but the primary reason I upgraded was to take advantage of the speedups! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
