[issue1575] caef5fdf1375 breaks setup.py --version on MacOS X

[Christian Ebert]

* Steve Borho on Monday, March 30, 2009 at 09:55:51 -0500
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.net> wrote:
>> * Benoit Boissinot on Monday, March 30, 2009 at 11:58:11 +0200
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:55:29AM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
>>>> * Christian Ebert on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 17:34:22 -0000
>>>>> New submission from Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.net>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> As of caef5fdf1375 building hg triggers a traceback on MacOS X.
>>>>> I guess it must be MacOS X, as no one else is complaining ;-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> More precisely it's "python setup.py --version" that triggers it.
>>>> 
>>>> Noone else encountering this? I'm starting to get worried about
>>>> my setup ;-)
>>> 
>>> posixfile should be imported by the "from posix import *" on OSX.
>> 
>> I know. That's why I am worried. I can run the tests fine. Just
>> the version detection with pure.py won't work.
>> 
>> I can build and install in spite of the traceback, but the
>> version number (of the previous install) is not bumped up.
>> 
>> Must be something with pure.py
> 
> I got that traceback running 'python setup.py install' on Linux on the
> tip of main.
> Haven't had time to look into it

Michael Springmann has put a patch on the bug tracker that works
for him and reduces the traceback to a deprecation warning for
me (maybe because I run Python 2.6).

c
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