On 6 March 2013 11:22, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > If it feels like you're yak shaving and you'd rather not be, you could look at > distribute3 [1], which doesn't need 2to3. It was synchronised with distribute > in > Jan 2013, so it might work for you if you don't need some more recent > functionality/bug-fix.
Thanks. I had tried distribute3 last night and it failed. But it works today... :-( There seems to be some annoyingly subtle environmental dependencies which affect how distribute's setup.py behaves. but I have no idea what's going on, or how to get to the bottom of it. If I do the build from a virtualenv with distribute installed, everything works fine. So I think the conclusion I have to come to is that to do anything other than install distribute from source, I need to be working in an environment (probably a virtualenv) with distribute already installed. That's a nuisance for what I'm trying to achieve, as it has bootstrapping consequences, but if that's what's needed, so be it. Thanks for the help in any case, Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
