Cheetah and easy_install
As it turns out, there are many ways to skin a cat and sometimes the cat wins. Any Zope or Plone developer knows that Cheetah is a crucial dependency of ZopeSkel. Unfortunately, after obliterating my mac’s python installation, I needed both a fresh OS and Zope installation. Here’s the problem: Cheetah was updated recently and (at least for me) caused easy_install a good bit of grief. When trying to easy_install ZopeSkel from pypi, Cheetah just won’t install — the solution is as follows.
