On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:06 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >>> >>> The only question is, given that 2.6.x is supposed to be a bug-fix branch, >>> do we >>> want to fix that incompatibility with a widely deployed existing piece of >>> software? Whether or not the incompatibility is legitimate (i.e., whether >>> setuptools is badly written and relies on implementation details) is beyond >>> the >>> point, IMO. >> >> Right. As discussed with Barry, I will work on an internal special >> case in Distutils in the 2.6 maint. >> branch so it fixes the incompatibility with the Setuptools 0.6c9 release. > > You could add a selective work-around that just triggers if setuptools > has been loaded on the 2.6 branch. > > if sys.modules.has_key('setuptools'): > # monkey-patch fix-up setuptools to work with the new code > ... > > or the other way around: > > if sys.modules.has_key('setuptools'): > # undo r1234 to make setuptools 0.6c9 happy again
Yes I am working on this. I am putting setuptools specific build_ext command into the distutils tests to reproduce the issue, then will do a specific setuptools fix, > ... > > -- > Marc-Andre Lemburg > eGenix.com > > Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 05 2009) >>>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: > > > eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 > D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg > Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 > http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org | オープンソースはすごい! | 开源传万世,因有你参与 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com