
Hi all, I'm a newbie so have no idea where to submit bug reports. If this message should be winging its way to someone else, please tell me. I'm having some trouble installing the distutils source. Transcript below - it looks to be a code bug rather than a system problem, although of course I could be mistaken. I'm using python 2.3 on a Debian system. Python is installed to /usr/lib (hence the --home=/usr/lib - I also tried installing without this option and got the same message). I downloaded my copy of distutils today so it should be the latest version. Am I making an obvious mistake or is there a genuine problem? Thanks and sorry to bother, Alex root@ajl59:/home/ajl59/distutils/Distutils-1.0.2# python setup.py install --home=/usr/lib Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 30, in ? packages = ['distutils', 'distutils.command'], File "/home/ajl59/distutils/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/core.py", line 101, in setup _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs) File "/home/ajl59/distutils/Distutils-1.0.2/distutils/dist.py", line 130, in __init__ setattr(self, method_name, getattr(self.metadata, method_name)) AttributeError: DistributionMetadata instance has no attribute 'get___doc__'

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:12:36PM +0100, Alex Labram wrote:
Are you aware that you'll get python 2.3's distutils by installing python2.3-dev ? Please don't take this mail into account if what you really want to do is installing the latest distutils. -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:12:36PM +0100, Alex Labram wrote:
Are you aware that you'll get python 2.3's distutils by installing python2.3-dev ? Please don't take this mail into account if what you really want to do is installing the latest distutils. -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org
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