Sun Nov 5 17:26:24 2006

Ticket #102 (assigned)

Nose frontpage installation instructions in error

Priority: low Reporter: stephen@thorne.id.au
Severity: minor Assigned to: jpellerin (accepted)
Component: nose Status: assigned
Version: 0.9.1 Resolution:  
Milestone: 0.9.2 Keywords:  

Description by stephen@thorne.id.au:

These instructions are wrong: 

Install nose using setuptools:

easy_install nose

Or, if you don't have setuptools installed, use the download link 
at right to download the source package, and install in the normal
fashion: Ungzip and untar the source package, cd to the new
directory, and:

python setup.py install

You cannot run python setup.py install without setup_tools upgraded to at least the version that nose is configured to work with, as per this error message: 

$ sudo python setup.py install                                                ~/src/nose-0.9.1
The required version of setuptools (>=0.6c2) is not available, and
can't be installed while this script is running. Please install
 a more recent version first.

(Currently using setuptools 0.6c1 (/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c1-py2.4.egg))
zsh: 32149 exit 2     sudo python setup.py install

I recommend ammending the instructions to say 

python ez_setup.py
python setup.py install

and note that the installation will cause easy_install to be installed. Perhaps a link to ez_setup.py would be good too.

Changelog

Tue Nov 7 09:29:05 2006: Modified by jpellerin

  • milestone set to 0.9.2
  • priority changed from normal to low
  • severity changed from major to minor
  • version set to 0.9.1
  • status changed from new to assigned

This is a normal (though annoying) setuptools problem. It doesn't affect everyone, and the error message from setuptools gives the correct instructions for those who are affected. I wish setuptools could be smarter about self-updating and the requirements listed in ez_setup, but it's out of my control. So for nose, this is really just a minor documentation issue, in that the instructions are missing an explicit recipe for on case (you have setuptools but it's an older version).