12 Jul
2005
12 Jul
'05
2:41 p.m.
On 7/12/05, Kevin Dangoor
easy_install -U setuptools
is the easiest way to upgrade. And, once you have the new version, you will be able to do python -m easy_install -U setuptools to keep up to date.
That conflicts with a bdist_wininst installation. Shouldn't be too hard to sort out, but there's a little bit of a chicken and egg issue here :-) Actually, ez_setup.py works fine on Windows - so that may well be a better option for Windows users with network access. However, if setuptools is installed as an egg, python -m easy_install doesn't work (and putting the egg on PYTHONPATH, or even renaming it as .zip didn't help - this may be a bug in Python's -m support...) Paul.