error: README.rst: No such file or directory in easy_install

[twiggy]

Easy install is reporting this error...

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26\jre\lib>easy_install -U mongodb_beaker
install_dir C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages
Searching for mongodb-beaker
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/mongodb_beaker/
Reading http://bitbucket.org/bwmcadams/mongodb_beaker/
Reading http://github.com/bwmcadams/mongodb_beaker/
Best match: mongodb-beaker 0.5
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mongodb_beaker/mongodb_beak
er-0.5.tar.gz#md5=a8681c2c9892c1c6097070425e3b6881
Processing mongodb_beaker-0.5.tar.gz
Running mongodb_beaker-0.5\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\temp\easy_install
-ogdyy_\mongodb_beaker-0.5\egg-dist-tmp-8xv7zi
error: README.rst: No such file or directory

[diarmuidbourke]

A temporary fix until a new pypi package is uploaded is to open to .tar.gz and remove the "long_description" entry from the setup.py

[rynbrd]

A better idea would be to fix it? It's been a year.

[zopyx]

Does the package owner ever tests packages before releasing them?
It is a shame that such a trivial packaging error remains unfixed for over a year.
Test your stuff before releasing it.

[rynbrd]

I forked the this project, renamed it, fixed the issues I knew about (this one an the stupid file locking mechanism), and released it. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/beaker_mongodb/0.1 https://github.com/BlueDragonX/beaker_mongodb

[rynbrd]

Also, I've run my fork on a production website, seems to work well.