Commit 5228bdf3 authored by PJ Eby's avatar PJ Eby

Add a note about interaction between exemaker and easy_install

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branch : setuptools
extra : convert_revision : svn%3A6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771/sandbox/trunk/setuptools%4041082
parent b52565a6
......@@ -481,6 +481,16 @@ Known Issues
* There's no automatic retry for borked Sourceforge mirrors, which can easily
time out or be missing a file.
* Wrapping ``easy_install.py`` with the Exemaker utility may cause failures
when building packages that want to compile themselves with optimization
enabled. This is because Exemaker sets ``sys.executable`` to point to the
``easy_install`` wrapper, instead of to the Python executable, and the
``distutils.util.byte_compile()`` function expects to be able to invoke
``sys.executable`` to run a short Python script. Unfortunately, this can't
be directly fixed by EasyInstall; it has to be fixed in the distutils or
in Exemaker. So, don't use Exemaker to wrap ``easy_install.py``, or at any
rate don't expect it to work with all packages.
0.5a5
* Added ``develop`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages. This command
installs an ``.egg-link`` pointing to the package's source directory, and
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