akh and danielj, Going with an empty distribute that depends on setuptools.
-kurt (goatbar) On Jun 12, 2013, at 6:34 PM, Kurt Schwehr <kurtschw...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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
