[PEAK] Small Issue installing Extremes with pip

[Jorge Vargas]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:17 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 02:03 AM 2/5/2009 -0400, Jorge Vargas wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm writing to ask for a little patch against the Extremes package.
>> Apparently when building from source Extremes assumes ez_setup is on
>> the build environment. As shown here
>> http://svn.eby-sarna.com/Extremes/setup.py?view=markup This together
>> with the way pip installs things (using sdist) is causing the build of
>> TurboGears to fail as reported here
>> http://trac.turbogears.org/ticket/2169
>>
>> The solution is really simple. All we need is a try/catch block around
>> the ez_setup of the setup.py which will allow it to continue. if
>> setuptools is present but ez_setup isn't.
>
> Actually, it's even simpler; I fixed it to actually include ez_setup as an
> SVN external, the way it was supposed to be in the first place.  ;-)
>
> Thanks for reporting the problem.
>
sorry for the late response, for some reason my mail client didn't
flash this message.

Thank you very much, I noticed this yesterday when working on pip, and
it worked itself out which got me wondering and I came here. totally
agreed with you I forgot about the svn externals solution.