Opened at 2007-11-20T04:32:31Z
Closed at 2016-01-15T17:54:08Z
#212 closed defect (somebody else's problem)
easy_install of a fat binary .egg which was built on Mac OS 10.4 fails on Mac OS 10.5
| Reported by: | zooko | Owned by: | zooko |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | major | Milestone: | eventually |
| Component: | packaging | Version: | 0.7.0 |
| Keywords: | install mac setuptools | Cc: | |
| Launchpad Bug: |
Description (last modified by daira)
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.)
Change History (14)
comment:1 Changed at 2007-11-20T19:19:55Z by zooko
comment:2 Changed at 2007-11-20T19:20:01Z by zooko
- Owner changed from somebody to zooko
- Status changed from new to assigned
comment:3 Changed at 2007-11-20T19:37:12Z by zooko
- Summary changed 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
comment:4 Changed at 2007-12-17T16:08:24Z by zooko
I've reported this issue to the Python Mac SIG and they are apparently working on fixing it in future releases of Python:
comment:5 Changed at 2008-01-23T02:39:46Z by secorp
- Milestone changed from 0.7.1 to 0.9.0 (Allmydata 3.0 final)
comment:6 Changed at 2008-03-08T04:13:13Z by zooko
- Milestone changed from 0.9.0 (Allmydata 3.0 final) to undecided
comment:7 Changed at 2008-06-02T23:50:42Z by zooko
Here is the ticket for this issue on the setuptools tracker:
comment:8 Changed at 2009-08-06T18:41:35Z by zooko
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.
comment:9 Changed at 2009-10-25T18:15:16Z by zooko
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.
comment:10 Changed at 2009-12-12T02:37:56Z by davidsarah
- Keywords install added
comment:11 Changed at 2013-08-05T23:32:35Z by daira
- Description modified (diff)
- Keywords mac setuptools added
comment:12 Changed at 2014-06-30T21:40:15Z by zooko
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from assigned to closed
both of the versions of Mac OS X mentioned in this ticket are obsolete. closing.
comment:13 Changed at 2014-07-24T00:34:32Z by daira
- Resolution wontfix deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
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.
comment:14 Changed at 2016-01-15T17:54:08Z by daira
- Resolution set to somebody else's problem
- Status changed from reopened to closed
This will be somebody else's problem when we switch to a newer setuptools that supports wheel distributions.
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.