windows egg installation fails due to inability to recognize dependencies

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Not sure why this works on Linux but not Windows.  Both use Python 2.5. 
Here's the problem using setuptools 0.6c5:


c:\python25\Scripts\easy_install.exe PyGEP
Searching for PyGEP
Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PyGEP/
Reading http://code.google.com/p/pygep
Reading http://code.google.com/p/pygep/downloads/list
Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PyGEP/0.1.2.beta-r48
Best match: PyGEP 0.1.2.beta-r48
Downloading http://pygep.googlecode.com/files/PyGEP-0.1.2.beta_r48-py2.5.egg
Processing PyGEP-0.1.2.beta_r48-py2.5.egg
Moving PyGEP-0.1.2.beta_r48-py2.5.egg to c:\python25\lib\site-packages
Adding PyGEP 0.1.2.beta-r48 to easy-install.pth file

Installed c:\python25\lib\site-packages\pygep-0.1.2.beta_r48-py2.5.egg
Processing dependencies for PyGEP
Searching for python>=2.5
Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/python/
Couldn't find index page for 'python' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/
Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Python/2.5
Reading http://www.python.org/2.5
Best match: Python 2.5
Downloading http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
^C
C:\>interrupted


Ick!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ryanjoneil on 30 Apr 2007 at 2:22

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A clarification: note that the installation of PyGEP succeeds, but setuptools 
tries
to install python2.5 from source.  Once it downloads the tarball and fails to 
install
python 2.5 (or worse: doesn't fail), PyGEP should be installed properly.  That 
said,
this is the absolute wrong thing to do.

Original comment by ryanjoneil on 30 Apr 2007 at 3:31

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Added a workaround for this in v0.1.3.  Will submit the issue to the setuptools 
folks.

Original comment by ryanjoneil on 1 May 2007 at 12:36

• Changed state: Fixed

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Reopening the issue so I will actually take care of it.  The cheesecake folks 
are
running with python 2.4, and (of course it doesn't install).  However, it 
wouldn't
even download if I could set the dependencies properly instead of raising an 
error.

http://pypi.pycheesecake.org/pypi/score/PyGEP/0.2.1.beta-r100

Original comment by ryanjoneil on 5 Jun 2007 at 4:23

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Original comment by ryanjoneil on 5 Jun 2007 at 4:23

• Changed state: Accepted

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Find a thread for the issue here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-June/007704.html

Original comment by ryanjoneil on 5 Jun 2007 at 5:04

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It appears we'll just have to make do for the time being, though apparently
setuptools will be a bit more graceful raising SystemExit instead of Exception. 
 That
will go in 0.3.0.

Original comment by ryanjoneil on 6 Jun 2007 at 2:37

• Changed state: WontFix