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/


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