On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On 04:41 pm, kevin.h...@gmail.com wrote: > >FYI, this totally fails on Windows XP, Py2.6, Twisted 9.0.0... > > This is an interesting problem. > > easy_install identifies > > http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/9.0/Twisted-9.0.0.win32-py2.6.exe > as some kind of package it can install - maybe a self-extracting zip? I > don't know - but that's not what it is. This seems to be because the > name matches the scheme setuptools uses for naming certain kinds of > distribution files. >
I think it thinks that it's an executable created using "python setup.py bdist_wininst" or something similar... > > We presently are not distributing binary eggs for Windows, so > easy_install isn't likely to be the best installation strategy anyway. > Well, the second thing I do on a new machine (after installing Python of course) is install MinGW and set distutils up to use it as a compiler for Python extensions, so for me it usually works just fine. :) However, in the general case, I agree that most people won't necessarily have a compiler installed on Windows. Not entirely related to this discussion (though not entirely unrelated), I think that Twisted's whole release/distribution system needs to be revamped a little. I've been meaning to talk to radix about this, but haven't found the time...maybe this will give me the kick in the pants I needed... Kevin Horn
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