[egenix-users] Pip + virtualenv problem installing egenix-mx-base

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Leonardo Santagada wrote:
> I tried installing egenix-mx-base on a virtualenv and found a problem:
> 
> "
> usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
>        or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
>        or: -c --help-commands
>        or: -c cmd --help
> 
>     error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized
> "
> 
> It appears that egenix-mx-base package doesn't use setuptools, is this right?

It doesn't use setuptools, that's correct.

However, you can still install the eggs we provide using
setuptools and also from source:

"""
lemburg/tmp> virtualenv --no-site-packages testsetuptools
New python executable in testsetuptools/bin/python
Installing setuptools.......................done.

lemburg/tmp> cd testsetuptools/

tmp/testsetuptools> bin/easy_install egenix-mx-base
Searching for egenix-mx-base
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/egenix-mx-base/
Reading http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/
Reading http://www.lemburg.com/python/mxExtensions.html
Reading http://www.egenix.com/
Best match: egenix-mx-base 3.1.2
Downloading http://downloads.egenix.com/python/egenix-mx-base-3.1.2.tar.gz
Processing egenix-mx-base-3.1.2.tar.gz
Running egenix-mx-base-3.1.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
/tmp/easy_install-lFjVM5/egenix-mx-base-3.1.2/egg-dist-tmp-ZUplQv
...
Adding egenix-mx-base 3.1.2 to easy-install.pth file

Installed
/home/lemburg/tmp/testsetuptools/lib/python2.6/site-packages/egenix_mx_base-3.1.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg
Processing dependencies for egenix-mx-base
Finished processing dependencies for egenix-mx-base

tmp/testsetuptools> bin/python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Apr 19 2011, 11:55:58)
[GCC 4.5.0 20100604 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 160292]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Loaded pyinteractive.py.

>>> import mx.DateTime
>>> mx.DateTime.now()
<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2011-05-11 18:37:22.92' at 7fc8d08a4870>
>>>
"""

pip appears to require a setup.py which uses setuptools and doesn't
appear to work with binary eggs either:

"""
tmp/testpip> bin/pip install -i http://downloads.egenix.com/python/index/ucs2 egenix-mx-base
Downloading/unpacking egenix-mx-base
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement egenix-mx-base
No distributions at all found for egenix-mx-base
"""

Nothing much we can do to help with that, sorry.

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