[Distutils] setuptools 0.5a5: "develop" and "test" commands

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:05 AM 7/6/2005 -0400, Ryan Tomayko wrote:
>On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:19 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>There were a couple of other important changes in this release;
>>easy_install the *module* is now found under setuptools.command;
>
>This is breaking setuptools upgrades using ez_setup.py. If you run
>the latest ez_setup.py on a system that has a previous version of
>setuptools installed, you get an ImportError:
>
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "ez_setup.py", line 160, in ?
>         main(sys.argv[1:])
>       File "ez_setup.py", line 149, in main
>         from setuptools.command.easy_install import main
>     ImportError: No module named easy_install
>
>I was able to get around it with the following patch:
>
>$ diff ez_setup.py{.orig,}
>149c149,152
><         from setuptools.command.easy_install import main
>---
> >         try:
> >             from setuptools.command.easy_install import main
> >         except ImportError:
> >             from easy_install import main

Okay, I updated the download for that.  Luckily, ez_setup isn't versioned 
or included in the main setuptools package, so it didn't necessitate a new 
release version.

Testing EasyInstall and friends is currently a pain because there's no 
clean way to unit test most distutils commands.  I'm really going to have 
to extend the OS sandbox code I wrote so it can do a virtual filesystem for 
testing purposes.