From: Brian Warner Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:15:02 +0000 (-0700) Subject: build-deps-setup.py: import twisted early, to make setuptools on dapper use the right... X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/%22news.html/...?a=commitdiff_plain;h=16e2b3307a9f2f8357cf2b2841f7c3af9a1de310;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git build-deps-setup.py: import twisted early, to make setuptools on dapper use the right version --- diff --git a/misc/dependencies/setup.py b/misc/dependencies/setup.py index cd09b025..ae024d19 100644 --- a/misc/dependencies/setup.py +++ b/misc/dependencies/setup.py @@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ import sys, os miscdeps=os.path.join('misc', 'dependencies') +# Dapper ships with older versions of Twisted (2.2.0) and Nevow (0.6.0), and +# (unlike newer distributions) they are not installed with .egg meta-data +# directories. As a result, they are invisible to setuptools. When the +# 'build-deps' target thus builds Nevow, it will fail unless Twisted-2.4.0 or +# newer is available, so Dapper users must install a newer Twisted before +# running 'make build-deps'. In addition, through some not-yet-understood +# quirk of setuptools, if that newer Twisted is in /usr/local/lib , somehow +# the build still manages to pick up the old version from /usr/lib . It turns +# out that importing twisted now, before use_setuptools() is called, causes +# setuptools to stick with the correct (newer) Twisted. This causes an error +# if Twisted is not installed before you run 'make build-deps', but having +# Twisted at this point is a requirement anyways. + +import twisted + try: from ez_setup import use_setuptools except ImportError: