Error on setup: IndexIndexError: string index out of range

[ghost]

Whe trying to install xbtarbiter on OSX Mavericks with Python 2.7.5 running I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 23, in <module>
    version=get_version(),
  File "setup.py", line 19, in get_version
    line = p.stdout.readline()[0]
IndexError: string index out of range

Any idea what's going on there?

[dankeder]

Hi,
there are probably no tags in the git repository. Try git fetch --tags origin before running setup.py.
I agree the error message is not very clear, I'll fix it as soon as I get to it.

[ghost]

Thanks a lot, Dan. That did the trick!