[py-dev] 0.9.2 alpha eggs - please test

[holger krekel]

Hi Harald, 

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 09:25 +0200, Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> other test results:
> 
> ----> py-0.9.2_alpha_7-py2..>
> 
> installs flawless.
> 
> But: there are a lot of useless things copied to python25\scripts:
> 
> py.cleanup.cmd
> py.countloc.cmd
> py.lookup.cmd
> py.rest.cmd
> py.test.cmd
> 
> do not have ANY use on windows, as  windows tries to open "py.cleanup"
> when typin py.cleanup; which of course fails.

hum, i think this relates to earlier installs and/or your 
PATH settings.  the above egg does not install "py.*". 
What it does is this (see "def run" at the end of 
http://codespeak.net/svn/py/release/0.9.x/setup.py): 
rename 
    py.test, py.rest, etc. to 
    py_test, py_rest, etc. 

in the Python25/Scripts dir and create py.test.cmd, py.rest.cmd, ...
helpers which calls the underscore scripts. 

But indeed, if one installs 0.9.1 and then 0.9.2-alpha one cannot 
use "py.test" out of the box.  This relates to the old PATH hacks. 
The new egg does not need to add to PATH which i think is good.  
So i guess I am going to work to try to fix things by
going through the PATH and pruning out "py/bin/" PATHS
if they look like py lib ones.  Actually i think it
makes sense to try to undo this PATH addition while
upgrading, anyway.  
 
> Recommendation: rename those to pycleanup.cmd, pycountloc.cmd etc.

i'd like to have uniforming naming if possible. 

on two sidenotes, i wonder why setuptools does not automatically 
delete the old py lib version and if there is a setuptool-supported
way of uninstalling packages. 

many thanks for noting this, 
holger