Comment 18 for bug 314507

Re #13

I did not file a bug, as I only wanted to use launchpadlib as a convenience, and used up all the time that I could justify towards that end. I like to get confirmation that my problems are not due to documentation being out of date or me missing something, before registering bugs. But I found that launchpadlib Answers is only supported in the ubuntu sub-project, not the top-level launchpadlib project; I found that nobody "answers" Answers for the ubuntu python-launchpadlib project.

I came to the conclusion that only Ubuntu is supported based on the installation instructions for launchpadlib and other factors. https://help.launchpad.net/API/launchpadlib#Installation . Under the "Installation" section for the launchpadlib product, there are only two alternatives: a: Instructions for Ubuntu with apt-get. b: Instructions for building from trunk code. As I am not running Ubuntu there was no alternative for me other than "b", which failed spectacularly, even after installing undocumented third party Python dependencies, as reported at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-launchpadlib/+question/137470 . As I said, maybe it's just a mistake or obsolescence in the instructions, or something I goofed, but nobody "Answered" me. The downloads page for launchpadlib at https://launchpad.net/launchpadlib/+download has only *.tar.gz files. Looks to me like they are intended only for Linux and UNIX at the most. I suppose it's possible that people could get either apt-get or the tar.gz distros working on Windows with Cygwin or MinGW or similar, but there's nothing about that in the installation instructions either.