Multiple .egg-info Directories in setup.py Script

Environment

pip version: 20.1
Python version: 3.7
OS: macos 10.15

Description After upgrading to 20.1 pip errors out with developer installation in (venv setup). Downgrading to 20.0.2 solves it immediately so I guess something is not right with the new version.

Expected behavior

How to Reproduce

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -e <my-source-directory>

Output

ERROR: More than one .egg-info directory found in <temp-path>

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:14 (10 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

pfmoorecommented, May 7, 2020

OK, so one setup.py building two projects? I’m pretty sure I’d consider that out of scope for pip.

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sbidoulcommented, Jun 1, 2020

@vkosuri setup.py in python-kadmin attempts to package two distributions: python-kadmin and python-kadmin-local. As explained above, this is unsupported. A possible workaround (if the package cannot be updated) is to download it manually from PyPI then run setup.py install.

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