Re: [Configobj-develop] Can't easy_install ConfigObj for Python 2.5

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Robin Munn wrote:
> "easy_install ConfigObj" doesn't work if you're using Python 2.5.
> There's no .egg for 2.5 linked from the
> http://www.python.org/pypi/ConfigObj/ page, so setuptools downloads
> the source and tries to run "setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /tmp/easy_install-kjBHsO/egg-dist-tmp-wnCMdZ" instead. But that fails
> with TypeError: "compile() expected string without null bytes". When I
> run the same setup.py command by hand from inside the configobj-4.3.2
> directory, I get:
>
> usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
>    or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
>    or: setup.py --help-commands
>    or: setup.py cmd --help
>
> error: invalid command 'bdist_egg'
>
> What would it take to get ConfigObj using a setup.py that's setuptools-aware?
>   

Hello Robin,

I think that to use ConfigObj with Python 2.5 you will need the version 
from subversion anyway. There is a rogue '__future__' important which is 
in the right place in subversion, but in the wrong place in the latest 
release.

I should probably do a new release because Nicola has made several good 
changes since the last release. I've been very distracted recently though.

As for eggs... well seeing that installing ConfigObj is a difficult as 
dropping one file somewhere on your path I never got round to doing 
that. I only uploaded the 2.4 eggs to stop the turbogears folk crying. ;-)

As setuptools seems to be maturing nicely (and is very nice to use) I 
should probably fix this. I'll be going to a setuptools talk at PyCon, 
so hopefully this will motivate me to sort it out.

All the best,


Michael Foord
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml