2009/8/6 Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Lennart Regebro<[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/8/6 Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]>: >>> Yes it's needed. Even if some people switch to Distribute in their >>> projects, as soon as you install >>> a project that is still on Setuptools, it will overwrite Distribute >>> files with no warning. >> >> But wait... if you install distribute, and you then install a project >> that depends on setuptools, you say it will be installed. > > no, it will be faked. meaning that just the PKG-INFO will be presented, > thus detected by pkg_resources. But at the end the setuptools *package*, > the pkg_resources.py and site.py files will be the one installed by > <distribute>.
I'm confused. You said that if a project is still on setuptools it will overwrite distribute. Now you said it wouldn't. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
