[Distutils] Buildout using Distribute 0.6

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been working on a branch of zc.buildout that uses distribute instead
>>> of
>>> setuptools:
>>>
>>> http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/branches/use_distribute/
>
> Okay, I now have all but a couple of tests passing on this branch, with all
> the changes from the trunk merged in as of a few hours ago...
>
> The test failures are a bit weird though:
>
> File "...src/zc/buildout/bootstrap.txt", line 23, in bootstrap.txt
> Failed example:
>    print 'X'; print system(
>        zc.buildout.easy_install._safe_arg(sys.executable)+' '+
>        'bootstrap.py'); print 'X' # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
> ...
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "bootstrap.py", line 87, in <module>
>        ws.require('zc.buildout' + VERSION)
>      File ".../distribute-0.6-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 621, in
> require
>      File ".../distribute-0.6-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 519, in
> resolve
>    pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: setuptools
>    <BLANKLINE>
>
> I can't find where setuptools is being required, any ideas?

This is probably zc.buildout setup.py script because it contains
"install_requires = 'setuptools',"
That's why you need to install Distribute using distribute_setup.py
for instance, so it fakes setuptools
presence for all packages that contains this requirement.


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