Installation on windows fail due to readline dependency
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Installing using easy_install on Windows fails:
C:>easy_install compmake
Searching for compmake
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/compmake/
Best match: compmake 2.3
...
Processing dependencies for compmake
Searching for decorator
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/decorator/
Best match: decorator 3.4.0
...
Searching for psutil
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/psutil/
Reading http://code.google.com/p/psutil/
Best match: psutil 1.0.1
...
Searching for readline
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/readline/
Best match: readline 6.2.4.1
...
error: Setup script exited with error: this module is not meant to work on Windows
Taking a dependency on pyreadline should solve the problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6024952/readline-functionality-on-windows-with-python-2-7
Thanks for the report! pyreadline looks cool. I'll try to see if it works.
Seems like it works as a drop-in replacement though key bindings are not necessarily the same.
Fixed in the next release.