Hey Barry,
I could reproduce it with this recipe from the distribute bug report
$ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python-twisted<-- you get twisted
installed (try "import twisted")
$ virtualenv /tmp/xxx
$ cd /tmp/xxx
$ easy_install twisted # downloads twisted, it shouldn't
If I ins
I could finally reproduce it.
David backport from setuptools here will fix the issue :
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/changeset/b045d0750c13
I've also added a test here:
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/changeset/aa5216d69ae7
I will do a 0.6.14 release once you've succesfully trie
Works for me on the current Lucid:
$ sudo easy_install extensions
Searching for extensions
...
Processing dependencies for extensions
Finished processing dependencies for extensions
$ virtualenv /tmp/test
...
$ cd /tmp/test
$ more setup.py
from setuptools import setup
setup(name='mindeponpywin32
Here's a detailed explanation of the problem:
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/41
I doubt setuptools will be fixed and released any soon for that. The project
didn't see any commit from his maintainer since a year, and
he doesn't want anyone else that wish to help to take over to do
