On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:03 AM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > At 07:29 PM 7/3/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: >> >> Besides the numerous technical issues, this is just basic decency. If >> I were PJE, I would be very mad. > > I'm not mad at it being provided with a compatible API.
This is obviously fine. > However, I *am* > very unhappy with the fact that the version of distribute that's being > shipped with OS distributions is both packaged as (e.g.) > "python-setuptools", AND prevents people from installing the real > setuptools, even in a local directory! > > So, David, I hope you've filed this as a bug report with both Distribute and > Ubuntu, and that others will do the same for any other distribution that's > shipping distribute under a misleading name and that has this behavior. Barry did it for ubuntu, zooko did a few months ago for distribute and I provided the patch for distribute (a few months ago as well). But I did not realize a few months ago that I was forced to use distribute without any fallback. On the bright side, this gave me much more respect for you and setuptools, and I admire your patience. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
