On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:24 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 01:42 PM 12/14/2010 +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Using Distribute in my setup.py, how do I best ensure that pkg_resources >> gets installed along with my package? I've tried >> 'install_requires=["setuptools>=0.6"]' as an argument to setup(), but >> setuptools didn't get installed. >> > > > I don't know about Distribute, but it should definitely get installed if > you're using setuptools. Under what installation scenario(s) did setuptools > *not* get installed? > Basically, my project bundles Distribute through distribute_setup.py, so Distribute doesn't need to be preinstalled. When I try to install my project (through 'python setup.py install') on a machine without setuptools/pkg_resources installed, however, setuptools does not get installed. I'll try to reduce this to a simple case, i.e. a dummy project that requires setuptools. Arve
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