On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:03 PM, P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
At 07:29 PM 7/3/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
Besides the numerous technical issues, this is just basic decency. If I were PJE, I would be very mad.
I'm not mad at it being provided with a compatible API. However, I *am* very unhappy with the fact that the version of distribute that's being shipped with OS distributions is both packaged as (e.g.) "python-setuptools", AND prevents people from installing the real setuptools, even in a local directory!
That's not the intent. You can install setuptools if you want, globally, by removing distribute.
Right, because remove python-setuptools (which is distribute) is not impractical at all on ubuntu. David