<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">If I recall pip hasn't handled the upgrade of distribute very well for awhile now but I can't see to find an existing ticket for it. </div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>the older issue is that pip can't upgrade distribute in python 3 (related to distribute requiring 2to3)</div><div><a href="https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/650">https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/650</a></div>
<div>btw, pip-1.4 (unreleased) has new logic to skip even trying, because the problem prevents upgrades and wheel building for projects like "pyramid" (which formally depend on setuptools)</div><div><br></div><div>
Marcus</div></div>