[Setup] Plone4 dev buildout fails building Zope 2.12.0 while running Python2.6 Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS Server

["Armin C. Stroß-Radschinski"]

Hi Danielle,
thx alot for the reference to the advice.
I will report success in my situation to the list

Armin
Am 13.10.2009 um 08:20 schrieb danielle davout:

> Tarek Ziade: Python 2.6.3 and Distribute.
>
> Posted 9 days ago
>
> Python 2.6.3 is out, will a lot of bugs fixed. I had my share with
> Distutils and fixed quite a few, and 2.6.3 is looking very good so far
> !
>
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/plone/rss_articles?page=2
>
> Just a quick note for Setuptools users: you might bump into a problem
> if you provide a C extension. ... [More] The setuptools code makes
> some assumptions on how and in which order the Distutils build_ext API
> are called. It also overrides some of these API to do some internal
> extra work. In other words, the way Setuptools patches Distutils makes
> it very sensitive to any internal Distutils code changes. In this
> particulare case you might have this bug:
>
> File "...setuptools/command/build_ext.py", line 85, in
> get_ext_filename KeyError: 'xxx'
> The fix is quite simple, it can be done by the end-user or in your
> package (which is better of course).
>
> In your package : use “Distribute >= 0.6.3″ distribution instead  
> of
> the usual “Setuptools == 0.6c9″ distribution in you dependencies  
> list.
> The code remain unchanged and you can still “import setuptools”  
> and
> have it working fine.
> As an end-user: just do a Distribute installation and your fine  
> “sudo
> easy_install Distribute”
>
>
> 2009/10/13 danielle davout <danielle.davout at gmail.com>:
>> I've read somewhere, sometime ago that with Python 2.6.3, you need
>> Distribute instead of setuptools but that Python 2.6.4 will work  
>> again
>> with an
>> unmodified setuptools.
>>
>> 2009/10/13 "Stroß-Radschinski Armin C." <developer at acsr.de>:
>>> Hi list,
>>> I am stucked getting Plone4 dev up. My issue building Zope 2.12.0  
>>> while
>>> running Plone4 dev buildout with
>>> http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/buildouts/plone-coredev/branches/4.0
>>>
>>> I still use svn 1.4.6 because the toubles with old instances and  
>>> new svn. I
>>> only know about upward issues with old setuptools using svn 1.5.x  
>>> and 1.6.x.
>>>
>>> any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>> System infos:
>>> We are running on Linux with  "Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS Server", with  
>>> selfcompiled
>>> Python 2.6.3 invoked for the instance bootstrap.py via a local  
>>> virtualenv
>>> and option --no-site-packages.
>>>
>>> My buildout fails with:
...
>>> "/home/goa/instances/triplefox4.0/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ 
>>> setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/build_ext.py",
>>> line 85, in get_ext_filename
>>> KeyError: 'cAccessControl'
>>> An error occured when trying to install Zope2 2.12.0.Look above  
>>> this message
>>> for any errors thatwere output by easy_install.
>>> While:
>>>  Installing.
>>>  Getting section instance.
>>>  Initializing section instance.
>>>  Installing recipe plone.recipe.zope2instance.
>>>  Getting distribution for 'Zope2==2.12.0'.
>>> Error: Couldn't install: Zope2 2.12.0
>>


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