Mailman 3 July 2010 - Distutils-SIG

Re: [Distutils] How to force installing setuptools instead of distribute ?
by P.J. Eby 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

At 09:45 AM 7/1/2010 +0530, Zubin Mithra wrote: >1. Setuptools is no longer being maintained. This is not true. Please don't spread it, and I'd appreciate it if you'd kindly issue a retraction in any other forum where you've spread it. Thanks.

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Re: [Distutils] How to force installing setuptools instead of distribute ?
by P.J. Eby 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

At 11:35 AM 7/1/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: >On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:23 AM, P.J. Eby <pje(a)telecommunity.com> wrote: > > Have you tried requesting an exact version number of setuptools? (e.g. > > setuptools==0.6c11 or setuptools==dev06) > >I have tried that, but easy_install considers it does not need it >because distribute has a version higher (0.6.13): > >install_dir /home/david/src/rt_analytics/tmp/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ >Searching for distribute >Best match: distribute 0.6.13 Did you try asking for an *exact* version of setuptools with '==' (not using '>=' or leaving off a version)?

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Re: [Distutils] How to force installing setuptools instead of distribute ?
by P.J. Eby 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

At 11:10 AM 7/1/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: >Hi, > >Ubuntu Lucid uses distribute instead of setuptools, and I cannot >manage to use setuptools with virtualenv because of this. I upgraded >to the last version of virtualenv, which claims to install setuptools >by default, but I still get distribute instead, and I would guess this >is because of Ubuntu using distribute, but who knows.... > >Is there a simple way to force virtualenv to install setuptools (the >PJE version, *not* the distribute fork) ? Have you tried requesting an exact version number of setuptools? (e.g. setuptools==0.6c11 or setuptools==dev06) (Distribute uses a hack of pkg_resources to pretend that it satisfies requirements that specify "setuptools". However, I don't think it fakes what *version* of setuptools it pretends to be.)

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