-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>> the distribute egg. Last, the setuptools egg is faked and you wil >>> notice that it's empty. This has to be done so zc.buildout and any >>> software >>> out there that has a hardcoded dependency on setuptools thinks it's >>> present. >> I think this is a bad idea. It can't be that hard to patch buildout to use >> distribute instead of setuptools. Running s/setuptools/distribute should do >> it... > > but as I explained earlier, even if buildout uses distribute, you > can't prevent an egg > out there to have an install_requires with setuptools, leading to the > mentionned problem > (the install battle) Why would an egg depending on setuptools cause setuptools to be installed: distribute's "PKG-INFO" will convince the system that setuptools is already present? Or are you defending the use of the "faked" PKG-INFO (which seems like an absolute requirement to me)? Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKevR0+gerLs4ltQ4RAtqjAKC9gxXUkymnGI/apLHKHI4S8BbBVQCfdnar nYV9px/IExgIZbjcex60GuU= =ckuR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
