On 6/12/13 6:19 PM, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
> Yup.  Suggestions on a solution?
>
> On Jun 12, 2013, at 6:13 PM, Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Kurt Schwehr <kurtschw...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The author of distribute merged distribute back into setuptools 0.7 and 
>>> took over as lead of setuptools.  Please convert python packages that use 
>>> distribute back to setuptools.
>>>
>>> Just committed setuptools 0.7.2 to 10.[78] and 10.[56].
>>>
>>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.7.2#id3
>>> https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/src/tip/docs/merge.txt
>>
>> This is causing a bit of a dependency problem. Some packages Depend on 
>> distribute-py rather than just BuildDepend, such as my modernize-py. Since 
>> setuptools and distribute are mutually exclusive, I now can't install 
>> setuptools at all without removing modernize first. I can update modernize 
>> to use setuptools but the already-installed version prevents the update from 
>> happening since distribute has to be uninstalled first, which causes a 
>> dependency loop.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
>

If the new setuptools is drop-in compatible with our current distribute, 
then how about making a dummy upgrade distribute which Depends on 
setuptools (>= 0.7.2)?

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
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