On 2/9/06, Ben Bangert <ben@groovie.org> wrote:
It's mainly because Routes is relied on by quite a few other setuptools-enabled packages, so being able to easy install it was necessary. I didn't have a non-setuptools build mainly because I couldn't see how to setup a setup.py file in such a way that I could make both versions at once. I'm assuming I'd need two setup.py's and to swap them in the build depending on if it was a setuptools build or not.
Could you do something like this: try: from setuptools import setup except ImportError: from distutils.core import setup On your system, you'd then be able to build eggs at will. Other people who download an sdist but don't have setuptools will just get normal sdist-like behavior. Kevin