Hello,

As Jim wants to dump setuptools support from buildout, would you mind taking a look at this issue for distribute please?

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Distutils] window 64bit madness Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:43:17 +0100 From: Adam GROSZER agroszer.ll@gmail.com To: distutils-sig@python.org

On 03/16/2011 11:47 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:

At 11:28 AM 3/16/2011 +0100, Adam GROSZER wrote:

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On 03/14/2011 07:50 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:

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Run "python -c 'import pkg_resources;print pkg_resources.get_build_platform()'" (with the Python interpreter you're using.

D:\install>c:\Python26_64\python.exe Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:13:38) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import pkg_resources;print pkg_resources.get_build_platform()

win-amd64

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Hm. What's sys.platform? Is it win32?

Exactly.

I suspect the problem has to do with all the win32-specificness scattered through setuptools; I think I know what I need to do to fix it all, but it'll be a fairly substantial patch; can you help with the testing if I email you such a patch?

Sure thing.