aka, liking that. they are compatible.
my other thought was to add a provides: distribute to setuptools. any reason that wouldn't work? -kurt On Jun 12, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/12/13 6:19 PM, Kurt Schwehr wrote: >> Yup. Suggestions on a solution? >> >> On Jun 12, 2013, at 6:13 PM, Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Kurt Schwehr <kurtschw...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The author of distribute merged distribute back into setuptools 0.7 and >>>> took over as lead of setuptools. Please convert python packages that use >>>> distribute back to setuptools. >>>> >>>> Just committed setuptools 0.7.2 to 10.[78] and 10.[56]. >>>> >>>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.7.2#id3 >>>> https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/src/tip/docs/merge.txt >>> >>> This is causing a bit of a dependency problem. Some packages Depend on >>> distribute-py rather than just BuildDepend, such as my modernize-py. Since >>> setuptools and distribute are mutually exclusive, I now can't install >>> setuptools at all without removing modernize first. I can update modernize >>> to use setuptools but the already-installed version prevents the update >>> from happening since distribute has to be uninstalled first, which causes a >>> dependency loop. >>> >>> Daniel >>> >> >> > > If the new setuptools is drop-in compatible with our current distribute, then > how about making a dummy upgrade distribute which Depends on setuptools (>= > 0.7.2)? > > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel