Hello I've uploaded a "preview" of the distribution in the repository website. That's not the official release but I've added there so people can help me debug it before it gets out for real ;)
There's a script called "new_ez_setup.py" you can download and use to install Distribute : http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/downloads/new_ez_setup.py It's not called ez_setup.py because there's a bug in bickbucket not allowing me to override the old ez_setup.py file we've uploaded a while ago (the old content keeps showing up if the new file is called ez_setup.py, looks like a cache issue) Anyways, the process is : $ wget http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/downloads/new_ez_setup.py $ python new_ez_setup.py What happens is : - if the setuptools distribution is detected, it's replaced with a fake 0.6c9 egg - Distribute then installs its own egg containing its setuptools package + pkg_resources.py module. In theory all programs that use setuptools will continue to work without any problem at this point, In practice I need to do a lot of tests to see how it works when there's other setuptools versions installed with -m. There's some work to do too on zc.buildout side to see how it behaves. I have started to write functional tests for this script but it's not easy to test it under all environements. but at this stage any help is already welcome ! my updated list of tasks : - more tests - working on zc.buildout side - documenting the install process, what is does, and how to remove it, In any case, there are good chances at this stage that some bugs will occur; if you do find a bug, please add an issue in the tracker, with "ez_setup" in the title with all the details about your environment. Thanks! Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
