Re: setuptools catch 22

2009-04-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Thanks, Kay. Of course, the workaround would be better known if the > setuptools web page had those instructions instead of "install using > the [non-existent] .exe file." :-) The instructions were written before Python 2.6 was released. They haven't be updated since. Regards, Martin -- http:

Re: setuptools catch 22

2009-04-16 Thread Mac
On Apr 16, 11:52 am, Kay Schluehr wrote: > Yes, but there is a known workaround: Thanks, Kay. Of course, the workaround would be better known if the setuptools web page had those instructions instead of "install using the [non-existent] .exe file." :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: setuptools catch 22

2009-04-16 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Mac schrieb: We've got ActiveState Python 2.6 installed on a Windows XP box, and I pulled down the latest archgenxml package (2.2) in order to get it running under this installation of Python. I unpacked the tarball for the package and tried running `python setup.py build' but got an ImportError

Re: setuptools catch 22

2009-04-16 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 16 Apr., 17:39, Mac wrote: > We've got ActiveState Python 2.6 installed on a Windows XP box, and I > pulled down the latest archgenxml package (2.2) in order to get it > running under this installation of Python.  I unpacked the tarball for > the package and tried running `python setup.py build

setuptools catch 22

2009-04-16 Thread Mac
We've got ActiveState Python 2.6 installed on a Windows XP box, and I pulled down the latest archgenxml package (2.2) in order to get it running under this installation of Python. I unpacked the tarball for the package and tried running `python setup.py build' but got an ImportError exception: "no