At 04:02 PM 2/11/2007 +1100, John Machin wrote: >On 11/02/2007 3:41 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>At 12:59 PM 2/11/2007 +1100, John Machin wrote: >>>Is this usual? >>Yes. ez_setup.py is a front-end to easy_install, that happens to also >>download and install the latest version of setuptools. If you want to >>just install the latest version of setuptools, the '-U setuptools' is >>redundant, unless you already have setuptools installed and want to update it. > >Can we try again, please? Refer to the console log that I included. It >*was* upgrading: > >"""Removing setuptools 0.6c3 from easy-install.pth file"""
Yes, but you were upgrading using a NEW version of ez_setup.py. If you'd used the already-present ez_setup.py (from when you installed 0.6c3), OR used the new ez_setup.py without the -U setuptools, you'd have only gotten one install/download. Running ez_setup.py simply attempts to download and install the version that it wants. Then it runs easy_install with any supplied command-line arguments. Thus, passing "-U setuptools" to a *new* ez_setup.py is redundant. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
