On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:03 AM, 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.
This is obviously fine.
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.
Barry did it for ubuntu, zooko did a few months ago for distribute and I provided the patch for distribute (a few months ago as well). But I did not realize a few months ago that I was forced to use distribute without any fallback. On the bright side, this gave me much more respect for you and setuptools, and I admire your patience. David