On 7/16/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks like Edin made setuptools required in svn, which I just
> reverted. Edin -- why? I'm a fan of setuptools, but I don't think we
> should require a prerequisite that isn't necessary. Of course, if the
> developers decide we want to requir
It looks like Edin made setuptools required in svn, which I just
reverted. Edin -- why? I'm a fan of setuptools, but I don't think we
should require a prerequisite that isn't necessary. Of course, if the
developers decide we want to require setuptools, I'm happy to support
the change, but it should
As a stopgap measure until someone with more knowledge of these changes
replies, the following worked for me. In setup.py, uncomment the old
distutils import, and comment the new setuptools import:
#from distutils.core import Extension, setup
from setuptools import setup
to
from distutils.cor
This morning I am having trouble installing from the svn repository. My home
machine does not have setuptools installed, and the standard python setup.py
install fails because it wants to import setuptools.
If I install setuptools, I am able to install, but not run pylab:
In [1]: from pylab imp
