ah, it's good if it doesn't require setup tools. I've seen a bunch of reports from people where they require setup tools, and get back cryptic messages about eggs and chickens.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A setuptools bug that prevented compilation when Pyrex is installed has > been fixed. Now I am considering enabling setuptools by default for all > builds. This will allow the building of eggs. It also means that the > setup.py install command installs an egg rather than a normal packaged > directory. Is this a good idea? I have not seeing problems with my > Windows builds. If setuptools in not present then setup.py will just use > vanilla distutils. But I see that the loading of setuptools is > conditional on bdist_mpkg_support. So I wish to confirm this dependency > for the Mac. Does setuptools require bdist_mpkg, or is bdist_mpkg only > dependent on setuptools? > > -- > Lenard Lindstrom > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
