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Bug 499060 - pyGTK installed using easy_install is not detected during installation
pyGTK installed using easy_install is not detected during installation
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Windows Installer
unspecified
Other Windows
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Jernej Simončič
Jernej Simončič
: 579726 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-11-22 22:44 UTC by Charles
Modified: 2011-09-25 16:33 UTC
See Also:
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Description Charles 2007-11-22 22:44:17 UTC 
When instaling GTK using easy_install I got this file (or a directory if zip-ing is disabled during install) in site-packages:

pygtk-2.10.6-py2.5-win32.egg

which looking at the installer script would not be detected because it only looks for the directory gtk-2.0 in site-packages. I know that the trivial solution would just creating the gtk-2.0 directory in python Lib\site-packages, but it would help those installing their pyGTK using easy_install without needing them to peek into the installer script to find the solution if the installer also check for the egg file/directory.
Comment 1 Charles 2007-11-22 22:46:14 UTC 
Sorry, first line should be "When installing pyGTK..."
Comment 2 Michael Schumacher 2007-11-23 12:57:09 UTC 
What is the suggested way to check for packages that are installed by easy_install?
Comment 3 Charles 2007-11-23 13:38:15 UTC 
One way of doing it: current installer script scans for PythonPath in the windows registry. After doing that, it can invoke a python script that test for the existence of a particular package (in this case pygtk) by calling, for example, pythonw.exe testgtk.py. The contents for testgtk.py could be

try:
  import pygtk
except:
  f = open(os.environ['TMPDIR'] + 'no_pygtk', 'w')
  f.close()

then the installer script would only need to check for the existence of %TMPDIR%/no_pygtk.
Comment 4 Michael Schumacher 2009-04-22 08:08:14 UTC 
*** Bug 579726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jernej Simončič 2011-09-25 16:33:59 UTC 
Revised installer (for 2.7 and future versions) will include everything needed to run Python scripts (this means Python and PyGTK+), so this bug isn't relevant anymore.