On 7/16/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks like Edin made setuptools required in svn, which I just
> reverted. Edin -- why? I'm a fan of setuptools, but I don't think we
> should require a prerequisite that isn't necessary. Of course, if the
> developers decide we want to require setuptools, I'm happy to support
> the change, but it should probably have some kind of consensus.

I apologize for creating the fuss, it was a stupid mistake (I
overlooked the fact that we require setuptools only for Python 2.3).

> Edin, if you want to use setuptools for your own installations, you can
> do, from the command line
>
> python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" install

Thanks for the tip.

Best,
Edin

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