Re: Problems on Installing New Fipy

On Jul 15, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Zhiwen Liang wrote:

>> Sorry for bothering. I was trying to update fipy to the current  
>> trunk subversion but failed. I noticed the setup.py uses  
>> "setuptools" which is not in my machine yet. So I downloaded the  
>> egg for python 2.3 and installed it. But I still could not install  
>> fipy. I got it build though. The message I got after I say "python  
>> setup.py install --prefix=..." is:

>>
>> NameError: global name 'log' is not defined

I don't know what that error message means, and I'm also not clear on  
what egg you mean. The installation procedure for setuptools that I  
know about is at

   http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#installation-instructions

I recommend that you delete /sw/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ 
setuptools-0.6c8-py2.3.egg and then follow those instructions.

Once trunk/ is stabilized, the use and installation of setuptools  
should be automated, but we're not there yet.