[egenix-users] mxExperimental on cygwin

M.-A. Lemburg mal at lemburg.com
Tue Sep 24 16:57:42 CEST 2002


Mark McEahern wrote:
> [M.-A. Lemburg]
> 
>>First: are you using the beta1 of egenix-mx-experimental ?
>>If not, please try that version first. setup.py should look in
>>/usr/local/lib per default, so no special options are needed.
>>
>>Makes me think: I should probably ship a new beta of that
>>package...
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, I should have specified what version I was using in my original
> email.  I'm using this version:
> 
>   http://www.egenix.com/files/python/egenix-mx-experimental-0.6.0.tar.gz

This is the latest beta:

    http://www.egenix.com/files/python/egenix-mx-experimental-0.7.0b1.tar.gz

> Is that what you're referring to as beta1?  I assume you saw the patch I
> posted to mxEXPERIMENTAL.py where the distutils package is defined.  I was
> able to install it successfully on cygwin simply by explicitly specifying
> the library:
> 
> 
> http://lists.egenix.com/mailman-archives/egenix-users/2002-September/000126.
> html
 >
> Of course, I'm not a master at using either gcc or distutils, so there may
> be an obvious reason why my patch is braindead.

Not at all: the explicit mention is what was missing in 0.6.0 :-)

> I really appreciate this package.  In particular I'm using mxTidy and it
> works dandy.  Thanks!

You're welcome.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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