Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:04:06PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:28:57PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
In this case, which I suspect is extremely rare anyway, you'll need
to have setuptools installed already.
So, in *any* of these cases, specifying setuptools as a requirement
seems like a total waste of time...
Now, what case have I missed? ;-)
It's nice for people creating system packages when you specify all of the
packages that your runtime depends on in setup.py.
...except that it causes problems that are a bit more serious than "nice
to have" because of the ridiculous situation we're in with setuptools
and distribute...
What's the issue precisely? Once distribute is on the system, setuptools is
provided by distribute so there's no problem there, correct?
The issue is that both the setuptools and distribute distributions
provide a setuptools package. This apparently causes problems, rather
unsurprisingly ;-)
Chris
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