Ned> Due to a change in distutils released with Python 2.6.3, packages
Ned> that use setuptools (version 0.6c9, as of this writing), or the
Ned> easy_install command, to build C extension modules fail ...
...
Ned> Among the packages known to be affected include lxml,
Ned> zope-interface, jinja2, and, hence, packages dependent on these
Ned> packages (e.g. sphinx, twisted, etc.).
Maybe the Python test suite should include tests with a small number of
widely used non-core packages like setuptools. I realize the pybots project
exists to tackle this sort of stuff in greater detail. I'm thinking more of
a smoke test than a comprehensive test suite covering all external packages.
Setuptools is particularly important because so many extension authors use
it. If it breaks it implicitly breaks a lot of PyPI packages.
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