Installation problems on Lion and Mountain Lion

[milkypostman]

I normally run Python from a virtualenv and have had no problems with packages. However, with Pymacs, I've tried installing using easy_install and pip and neither way installs in a way that can be found by the Python interpreter.

Most packages work fine through pip and for this I would do,

pip install git+https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs.git

This installs the file Pymacs-0.25-py2.7.egg-info into my lib/python2.7/site-packages directory but there is no corresponding egg. OK, maybe something with pip.

So then I try:

easy_install https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/master

This actually installs the egg Pymacs-0.25-py2.7.egg but then I find,

$ python -c "import Pymacs"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named Pymacs

Even if i manually set my PYTHONPATH it still doesn't work properly.

[milkypostman]

OK, so here is what I had to do...

git clone https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs.git
cd Pymacs
make
cd ..
easy_install Pymacs

Am I missing something here? This also created the site.py file in my lib directory. I'm just wondering what would need to be done to have this be more... automated?