easy_install of a fat binary .egg which was built on Mac OS 10.4 fails on Mac OS 10.5 #212

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zooko · 2007-11-20T04:32:31Z

zooko commented

2007-11-20 04:32:31 +00:00

So, dreid and Peter both get bizarre behavior from easy_install when they try to install a .egg which I built on Mac OS 10.4.

Another example is simplejson, which wasn't built by me. Peter's computer fails on "easy_install simplejson", after it installs the source tarball (why not the binary egg?) and then fails to compile it. (Because Peter doesn't have Xcode installed yet.)

So, dreid and Peter both get bizarre behavior from easy_install when they try to install a .egg which I built on Mac OS 10.4. Another example is simplejson, which wasn't built by me. Peter's computer fails on "easy_install simplejson", after it installs the source tarball (why not the binary egg?) and then fails to compile it. (Because Peter doesn't have Xcode installed yet.)

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zooko commented

2007-11-20 19:19:55 +00:00

It appears that easy_install on Mac OS 10.5 thinks that an egg named "macosx-10.3-fat.egg" is not usable, but Mac OS 10.4 thinks that such an egg is usable.

Note that "setup.py bdist" on Mac OS 10.4 produces eggs named "macosx-10.3-fat.egg".

PJE says that the OS X platform versioning code was contributed by someone other than he to pkg_resources, and that it works by reading /usr/bin/sw_vers.

The next step is to post to the Mac SIG mailing list about this issue.

It appears that easy_install on Mac OS 10.5 thinks that an egg named "macosx-10.3-fat.egg" is not usable, but Mac OS 10.4 thinks that such an egg is usable. Note that "setup.py bdist" on Mac OS 10.4 produces eggs named "macosx-10.3-fat.egg". PJE says that the OS X platform versioning code was contributed by someone other than he to pkg_resources, and that it works by reading /usr/bin/sw_vers. The next step is to post to the Mac SIG mailing list about this issue.

zooko changed title from ~~easy_install of a fat binary .egg which was built on Mac OS 10.4 fails on Mac OS 10.5... or something~~ to easy_install of a fat binary .egg which was built on Mac OS 10.4 fails on Mac OS 10.5

2007-11-20 19:37:12 +00:00

zooko commented

2007-12-17 16:08:24 +00:00

I've reported this issue to the Python Mac SIG and they are apparently working on fixing it in future releases of Python:

http://www.nabble.com/does-pkg_resources-think-that--22macosx-10.3-22-is-incompatible-with-10.5--to13865060.html#a13865060

I've reported this issue to the Python Mac SIG and they are apparently working on fixing it in future releases of Python: <http://www.nabble.com/does-pkg_resources-think-that--22macosx-10.3-22-is-incompatible-with-10.5--to13865060.html#a13865060>

tahoe-lafs added this to the 0.9.0 (Allmydata 3.0 final) milestone 2008-01-23 02:39:46 +00:00

zooko modified the milestone from 0.9.0 (Allmydata 3.0 final) to undecided

2008-03-08 04:13:13 +00:00

zooko commented

2008-06-02 23:50:42 +00:00

Here is the ticket for this issue on the setuptools tracker:

http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue19

Here is the ticket for this issue on the setuptools tracker: <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue19>

zooko commented

2009-08-06 18:41:35 +00:00

Maybe we could revisit this issue after switching to the new fork of setuptools named "Distribute":

http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/preparing-to-release-distribute-0-6/

I guess what we really need to do is boil this down to a simple test case -- build a .egg on Mac OS 10.4 and then try to install it on Mac OS 10.5.

Maybe we could revisit this issue after switching to the new fork of setuptools named "Distribute": <http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/preparing-to-release-distribute-0-6/> I guess what we really need to do is boil this down to a simple test case -- build a .egg on Mac OS 10.4 and then try to install it on Mac OS 10.5.

zooko commented

2009-10-25 18:15:16 +00:00

There have been some updates to http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue19 . It sounds like the Python/distutils/setuptools/distribute folks aren't going to fix this issue anytime soon.

There have been some updates to <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue19> . It sounds like the Python/distutils/setuptools/distribute folks aren't going to fix this issue anytime soon.

zooko commented

2014-06-30 21:40:15 +00:00

both of the versions of Mac OS X mentioned in this ticket are obsolete. closing.

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2014-06-30 21:40:15 +00:00

daira commented

2014-07-24 00:34:32 +00:00

How do we know this isn't still a problem between two more recent versions of Mac OS X? That should be tested before closing the ticket.

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