[Zope-dev] Question about RestrictedPython installation with python2.6

[Ruslan Mahmatkhanov]

Hanno Schlichting wrote on 10.10.2011 13:22:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov<cvs-src at yandex.ru>  wrote:
>> And this is breaks packaging on FreeBSD, since there will be no
>> before_and_after27.py[c,o] and security_in_syntax27.py[c,o] that we
>> expecting.
>> I know that this files included conditionally, but easy_install still
>> tries to compile them all independent of python version. As result - we
>> see this ugly errors. Is there anything i can do with this? (some
>> easy_install option to not compile this files) or can i anyhow to not
>> build and install tests? Thanks in advance for answer.
>
> There's no options for easy_install that prevent these. You'll have to
> either use the underlying setuptools API's or write some post-cleanup
> script that does what you need here.
>
> Those error messages are annoying, but we'll likely won't get rid of
> them before we switch to the new "packaging" / "distutils" libraries
> some time in the future.
>
> Hanno

Ok, thank you. I was able to avoid this packaging error with packaging 
infrastructure itself. But i'm wonder isn't there no means to separate 
tests/ and the main package and install them conditionally (if user 
requests it or if he is not)?

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Regards,
Ruslan

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