Where is distribute at pypi?
Hi, where is the distribute package at pypi? There is software (for instance pydicom) which need the distribute-0.6.xxx package. It doesn't work with the "setuptools" replacement out of the box! You can not just remove it!? Rupert
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Rupert Kolb <rupert.kolb@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
Hi,
where is the distribute package at pypi? There is software (for instance pydicom) which need the distribute-0.6.xxx package. It doesn't work with the "setuptools" replacement out of the box! You can not just remove it!?
Well distribute is right here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute/0.7.3 But nothing should be explicitly depending on it (particularly in favor of setuptools). Looking at pydicom there's nothing remarkable about it that it should make such a requirement, so if they do they're wrong and its developers should fix that.
There's your problem. https://code.google.com/p/pydicom/source/browse/source/setup.py . It's trying to install distribute as a side effect of running setup.py, so it can import setuptools. This is now discouraged. The best solution would be to remove the first 3 lines of that file. Setuptools is guaranteed to be available when installing with pip.
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