Re: [Numpy-discussion] building a numpy egg for centos

2012-07-24 Thread Jason Stelzer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Robert Kern 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, lik

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building a numpy egg for centos

2012-07-24 Thread Robert Kern
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Jason Stelzer wrote: > I'm building numpy 1.6.2 for python 2.5 on centos 5.8. > > I ran into a problem where bdist_egg was not working. It seems there's > a minor bug in numpy/distutils/core.py > > Under python 2.5 the check for setuptools does not work, so the bdi

[Numpy-discussion] building a numpy egg for centos

2012-07-24 Thread Jason Stelzer
I'm building numpy 1.6.2 for python 2.5 on centos 5.8. I ran into a problem where bdist_egg was not working. It seems there's a minor bug in numpy/distutils/core.py Under python 2.5 the check for setuptools does not work, so the bdist target for eggs is not available. I've attached a patch that