Christian Marquardt wrote: > Hello, > > I've run into the following problem: > > - I have numpy (v1.3.0b1) successfully installed in my system's > site-packages (for Python 2.5.2). > - I have setup a virtual environment (with virtualenv 1.3.3) which > uses the systems site-packages; in particular, I can load numpy > when working in that environment. > - I have a (namespaced) package which requires numpy (via > "install_requires = ['numpy']" in the setup() of setuptools > (v0.6c9, as coming with virtualenv), and try to build that in > the virtual environment using the usual python setup.py install. > - When processing the requirements for the packages, setuptools > downloads a fresh copy from numpy 1.3.0b1 from Pypi and tries > to install it - although numpy is already available in the system > wide site-packages directory. > > To me, that's a bug, but I would like to know if it is a bug in numpy > (which might not support setuptools in the correct way) or setuptools > which tries to install an already existing package. >
If you want setuptools 'support', I think you should install numpy through the setupegg.py script. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
