On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > This was an explicit design choice. numpy.distutils will never import > setuptools for you even if you have it installed. It will simply > integrate with it if you have run the setup.py script from something > that has setuptools imported, like the setupegg.py script. > > What exactly is failing to work under Python 2.5 on your system? > "python setup.py bdist_egg" should never work, but "python setupegg.py > bdist_egg" should. >
Thanks Robert, The explanation is user error on my part. I got too used to the convention of setup.py/eggs. -- J. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
