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! So, David, I hope you've filed this as a bug report with both Distribute and Ubuntu, and that others will do the same for any other distribution that's shipping distribute under a misleading name and that has this behavior. My understanding when this was discussed previously, was that distribute would *only* suppress the installation of setuptools versions released *before* the corresponding version of distribute. Also, considering how widespread the "setuptools isn't being maintained" lie is at this point, I'm a bit concerned that some OS distributors may have been unduly influenced by it in their switching decisions. My understanding (and I would guess, that of the OS distributors' as well) was *also* based on the premise that distribute was going to track with setuptools' feature additions and bug fixes, which it clearly has not. The 0.6c11 release (last October) fixed a rather long list of bugs besides the one you reported; does anyone know if the rest are actually fixed in Distribute?