Re: [Distutils] Distribute: will not build on Python 3 with --install-XXX arguments

2013-03-06 Thread Paul Moore
On 5 March 2013 13:36, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: What I'm doing is checking out distribute, then trying to install it into a temporary directory. However, when I do this, I seem to be getting the files in python 2 form, *not* having been converted using 2to3. The resulting build is

Re: [Distutils] Distribute: will not build on Python 3 with --install-XXX arguments

2013-03-06 Thread Vinay Sajip
Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com writes: On 5 March 2013 13:36, Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com wrote: What I'm doing is checking out distribute, then trying to install it into a temporary directory. However, when I do this, I seem to be getting the files in python 2 form, *not*

Re: [Distutils] [venv] distribute-0.6.35 fails on python 3.3?

2013-03-06 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:52:41PM +, Vinay Sajip wrote: How hard would it be to rewrite distribute to use a common language subset instead of relying on 2to3? I did this months ago, when doing PEP 405 venv development was getting old fast because of the 2to3 delay:

Re: [Distutils] Distribute: will not build on Python 3 with --install-XXX arguments

2013-03-06 Thread Paul Moore
On 6 March 2013 11:22, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: If it feels like you're yak shaving and you'd rather not be, you could look at distribute3 [1], which doesn't need 2to3. It was synchronised with distribute in Jan 2013, so it might work for you if you don't need some more

Re: [Distutils] distribute-0.6.35 fails on python 3.3?

2013-03-06 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Hi All, Can anyone else reproduce this? Essentially pip can not upgrade distribute or setuptools on Python 3. This is annoying, and it seems the easiest way to solve it is to stop using 2to3 for distribute. This is a

Re: [Distutils] Distribute: will not build on Python 3 with --install-XXX arguments

2013-03-06 Thread Vinay Sajip
From: Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com Thanks. I had tried distribute3 last night and it failed. But it works today... :-( I've just synchronised distribute3 with distribute again. All tests pass on 2.7 and 3.2 (I wasn't able to test with 3.3) - you might want to check the latest version.

Re: [Distutils] Distribute: will not build on Python 3 with --install-XXX arguments

2013-03-06 Thread Paul Moore
On 6 March 2013 12:50, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk 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,

Re: [Distutils] distribute-0.6.35 fails on python 3.3?

2013-03-06 Thread Daniel Holth
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Hi All, Can anyone else reproduce this? Essentially pip can not upgrade distribute or setuptools on Python 3. This is annoying, and it seems