[BUG] Bzr installation is completely broken

[John Arbash Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> Nicholas Allen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I did a setup.py install with the latest code base and now bzr refuses
>>> to run at all. Even if I install an older version I still have this
>>> problem. Here is the output I get:
>> You need to remove your old bzrlib/ install before installing a new one.
>>
>> This is a bug in python's built-in install functionality. In that it
>> just adds files, it doesn't remove old ones. I think if you just delete
>> "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\bzrlib" first, and then install bzr it
>> will work fine.
>>
>> You may want to copy ...\bzrlib\plugins\* first, in case you had any
>> plugins installed.
> 
> I think this would be a good reason to do the installation as a Python
> egg, so it is just one file that can be completely replaced without
> things hanging around.
> 
> I know eggs are redundant with OS package management (or at least with
> good package managers), but for people who do choose to install from
> source they seem to have some benefits.
>