On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Why would a "bootstrap" fail due to missing / less-than-required version > of setuptools in the host python? The bootstrap should be > self-contained enough to make things work no matter what, since the > point is too build an environment which doesn't rely on anything beyond > a "bare" Python install. > > $ svn co $ZSVN/Acquisition/trunk Aq-trunk > ... > $ cd Aq-trun > $ /path/to/python2.6 bootstrap/bootstrap.py > The required version of setuptools (>=0.6c11) is not available, and > can't be installed while this script is running. Please install > a more recent version first, using 'easy_install -U setuptools'.
This is probably due to an attempt to use an existing setuptools if it's available. I could probably add an option to get it to not do that. I'll look into that. Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
