On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 13:35 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > [This package is required in order to upgrade some python packages]
This is definitely worth getting in the distro, pending the issues below. > > http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/python-setuptools/python-setuptools-0.6.10-1-src.tar.bz2 > \ > > http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/python-setuptools/python-setuptools-0.6.10-1.tar.bz2 > \ > http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/python-setuptools/setup.hint Could you package the latest 0.6.13? The layout of the binary package doesn't look right, but that may have to do with the older version. I can't rebuild the package from source, nor am I interested in wading through an entire script to figure out what's wrong. Here is what I'm using for Ports: http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/python/python-setuptools/ > sdesc: "Python Library providing distutils enhancements" > ldesc: "A rewrite of the orignal setuptools project under library name > 'Distribute'. This package is intended to replace original Setuptools > as the standard method for working with Python module distributions." > category: Libs Python > requires: python I would use category: Devel Python; it's not a general-purpose library. There is also a misspelling of 'original'. > [*] The project name is "Distribute library". Being drop-in-replacement, > it is packaged as "python-setuptools" in Debian. Gentoo and Fedora do this as well, so this naming is correct. Yaakov