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diff --git a/EasyInstall.txt b/EasyInstall.txt index 0b5b8331..2410733e 100755 --- a/EasyInstall.txt +++ b/EasyInstall.txt @@ -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 |