[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

Éric Araujo added the comment: I think this change was wrong. Please see my rationale in http://bugs.python.org/issue12119. (BTW, I’d be surprised if byte compilation was the only compat issue with distutils and IronPython. For a start, sys.version[:3] is used to get the version number. I

[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: merged in 2.6 in r77376 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http:

[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

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[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Done in trunk (r75669, and r75670 and r75671) and Py3k (r75704) and 3.1 (r75705). I'll push in 2.6 when the branch is unfrozen. Michael, could you create another issue for the access rights problems ? It'll be easier to track. Thanks! -- status: open

[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Notice that install_lib has a --no-compile option that can be used to avoid compiling .pyc/.pyo files. What I am adding now is just a gentle warning in case a compilation is tried and sys.dont_write_bytecode is True, so the installation may proceed nevertheless an

[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

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[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

Michael Foord added the comment: So there are two issues here - the terrible error message when an install fails with an access denied error and the fact that distutils attempts to compile bytecode under IronPython. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

Michael Foord added the comment: Hmmm... ok, so I was running on Vista where a normal user can't create files in the "Program Files" directory anyway. If I run with elevated permissions then I get the same error as reported on the IronPython issue on codeplex (which is probably what you will see

[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

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[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

New submission from Michael Foord : distutils package installation isn't compatible with IronPython. To reproduce first install IronPython 2.6 (RC1 is currently latest version) from the msi installer. This installs by default on Windows into "C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6" and includes a "site