On 1 October 2013 18:51, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > pkg_resources only finds distributions inside .egg and inside sys.path > entries that are filesystem directories. You might be able to manually > add a new Distribution instance to working_set or start looking for a > place to add the feature here:
OK, I thought that might be the case. Context - you can't run pip/setuptools from uninstalled wheels to do pip.main(['install', '--use-wheel', '<wheelfile>']) because --use-wheel checks for a suitable version of setuptools using find_distribution. So the check fails. This is for virtualenv bundling wheels rather than sdists for faster creation. Looks like I'll have to work out a patch for pip to allow disabling that check somehow, or modifying it to use setuptools.__version__ rather than find_distribution. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
