On Aug 10, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Michael Bayer wrote:
Stefan Behnel wrote:
No idea, never seen this before. I use the same setuptools version under Py2.6.2, and it works perfectly well.
Have you tried the bdist_egg target instead of a mere "install"?
Also, the way setuptools patches into distutils makes it quite possible that newer Python releases introduce incompatibilities, so maybe there's an issue over there.
I was running build_ext in most cases. Didn't try bdist_egg. Anyway my dependency on that version of python is over for now, so if it is in fact an issue with py2.6+, we'll all find out soon enough. thanks for the help.
just an FYI, so now that 2.6.3 is out, more eyes have been on the problem and the issue is now described here: http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/python-2-6-3-and-distribute/