-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 No, this is not a flame.
I'm on Debian Squeeze and I noticed this strange thing: $sudo easy_install -U setuptools install_dir /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ Searching for distribute Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/distribute/ Reading http://packages.python.org/distribute Best match: distribute 0.6.14 Processing distribute-0.6.14-py2.6.egg distribute 0.6.14 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing easy_install script to /usr/local/bin Installing easy_install-2.6 script to /usr/local/bin Using /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.14-py2.6.egg Processing dependencies for distribute Finished processing dependencies for distribute Now, I read that this is a Debian policy: for some reasons they force me to use distribute instead setuptools. However, I *do* want to use setuptools, and I'm unable to do what I want. I checked the "fake" setuptools source code but I can't see what I need to modify in order to get setuptools when I ask for setuptools. By the way, I suspect there is a bug in Debian setuptools: if dist.key=='distribute': # Ensure that setuptools itself never becomes unavailable! # XXX should this check for latest version? filename = os.path.join(self.install_dir,'setuptools.pth') if os.path.islink(filename): os.unlink(filename) f = open(filename, 'wt') f.write(self.pth_file.make_relative(dist.location)+'\n') f.close() However if `easy_install setuptools` is an alias for `easy_install distribute`, that code may not executed (?) Thanks Manlio -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzlS4wACgkQscQJ24LbaUQVMgCfV0oIvuUJ3xRPlNhftTJZ3HMR 0BoAn2rb8DJFaPHhRRKcDNyRNN28uUfl =Lg51 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
