On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> wrote:

Hey,

I've just reported this sqlalchemy-migrate issue:

http://code.google.com/p/sqlalchemy-migrate/issues/detail?id=131

I thought it was worth pointing out here in case anyone thinks it's not an sqlalchemy-migrate specific issue.

It's not. https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/208 is an incorrect fix; the pkg_resources code was correct, and the documentation was wrong. So distribute 0.6.23 actually introduces a bug, relative to setuptools. As it happens, the behavior described in the doc was changed a long time ago because people weren't reading the docs and packages existed in the field using '-rc' tags, so I fixed the problem in pkg_resources, but missed that there was a reference in setuptools.txt to this behavior.