EasyInstall Experience Reports

Feel free to edit this page to add your successes and problems installing packages with EasyInstall. Please try to keep the lists in alphabetic order, for the convenience of people who are looking to see if success has already been reported for a particular package.

Installed, Appeared OK

aquarium-2.2.1
epydoc-2.1
fonttools-2.0b1
LuPy-0.2.1
nevow-0.4.1
Numeric-24.0b2
numarray-1.3.2
paramiko-1.3
pmock-0.3
PSE-2.2.2
pullparser-0.0.5b
pyblosxom-1.2
PyContainer-0.4
PyDispatcher-1.0.2
PyProtocols-0.9.3
Pyrex-0.9.3
Quotient-0.9.1
SCGI 1.2
SQLObject 0.6.1
Twisted-1.3.0rc1
WebStack-0.9
WSGI Utils 0.5
ZConfig-2.2
ZODB-3.4.0b1
Zope Page Templates (zpt.sf.net) 1.4
ZPTKit 0.2

Installation Notes/Issues

Note that some packages (including ones listed above) contain other information besides Python packages in their distribution files, such as documentation, scripts, sample data, etc. These other files are not installed by EasyInstall, so if you want to access them, you will need to download the distribution, and then give its filename to Easy Install to do the installation. You can then extract and use any other files you need direct from the original distribution.)

If you are responsible for any of the following packages, please consider making changes so that your downstream users can use EasyInstall to install them. If you're a user of one of these packages, please consider contributing a patch to the package's authors to make them compatible.

ipython-0.6.13: Appears to install correctly, but it's not clear to me if perhaps it expects users to edit the files in its IPython/UserConfig directory, or whether those are just templates.
ll-sisyphus-0.10.1: Author's name in package metadata includes an 8-bit character, which can't be written to PKG-INFO file
ModelingCore-0.9-pre-17.1: complains about cheetah-template not being found, and requires you to "Press ENTER to Continue"; appears to install, but it's not clear where the data files end up
SpreadModule-1.5: needs Spread include files already present/installed (might work if so)
ReportLab-1.20: setup.py is in a third-level directory. Also, it tries to second-guess install locations, so even if it ran, it would require some hacking of its data file path munging code in setup.py. This would probably work fine if it were changed to use the de-facto standard hack for distutils.command.install_data, used by other packages to install data in their package directories.
Twisted-2.0.1: setup aborts, demanding that zope.interface be installed (maybe they will replace w/egg dependency in future?)
Zope-X3.0.0: no setup.py