On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:03 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >> At 07:29 PM 7/3/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: >>> >>> Besides the numerous technical issues, this is just basic decency. If >>> I were PJE, I would be very mad. >> >> I'm not mad at it being provided with a compatible API. However, I *am* >> very unhappy with the fact that the version of distribute that's being >> shipped with OS distributions is both packaged as (e.g.) >> "python-setuptools", AND prevents people from installing the real >> setuptools, even in a local directory! > > That's not the intent. You can install setuptools if you want, > globally, by removing distribute.
Right, because remove python-setuptools (which is distribute) is not impractical at all on ubuntu. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
