[Distutils] Spurious "required version not available" error for setuptools?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:46 AM 8/31/2006 +0100, Hamish Lawson wrote:
>Others on the Kid mailing list seem to be having setuptools problems:
>
><http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30391159&forum_id=43670>
>
>Is it Kid's installation setup that's awry?

That problem is due to them using a11 after I killed off all the alpha 
releases from the Cheeseshop to keep people from installing versions that 
had some rather serious bugs that were fixed by the beta versions.  This 
doesn't affect your problem; even though they've changed the ez_setup 
you're still going to get an installation conflict error in your 
installation.  The problem you're having is specific to your installation, 
in other words.

On the whole, I think ez_setup is going to have to grow a way to bootstrap 
to the "latest non-alpha version" if there's one out there.  I should 
probably also have it output information about the conflicting setuptools 
installation if there's a conflict, as that would have made your problem 
easier for you to spot up front.



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