On 11/02/2007 4:46 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > 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.
Perhaps so, but my recollection is that didn't work that way last time: the very first ez_setup.py chucked a wobbly when I tried to use it to update setuptools :-) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
