On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 March 2013 12:50, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]> wrote: >> Still no joy with the uninstalled setuptools, then? It seemed to work for me >> without any special work, but that was on Linux. > > Yeah, again it seems to be subtle environmental issues. Sometimes it > works, sometimes it doesn't, never with a useful error message :-( > > It's mainly for setup.py - the hooks that override normal distutils > functionality seem to be the flaky bit. The errors generally seem to > be coming from core distutils, when I should be running setuptools > (things like "unknown option, --single-version-externally-managed" > even though setuptools is on sys.path). > > Not worth wasting any more time over, in my opinion. > Paul.
FWIW, from a discussion w/Jason earlier this week, I believe this is probably because distribute doesn't ship a built setuptools.egg-info/entry_points.txt, unlike setuptools which includes this file in revision control specifically to prevent such bootstrapping issues. So, the problem should be going away at some point. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
