-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Fulton wrote: > 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.
Great, thanks. I can see re-using that version if it is present, and new enough, but we ought to be able to use a downloaded version if that fails. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrvY7wACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7HtwCfaVVBBg5Ti87BTgc7WjmdX19+ u7cAoICgsoFUVWS4rAdjhGQCp+zyfQ4e =hKL9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
