[Distutils] setuptools in fink

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:40 AM 3/29/2006 -0500, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
>This makes me think setup tools is ok since it is in the default 
>site-packages:
>
>& /sw/bin/python2.4
>Python 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 24 2006, 17:05:21)
>[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247)] on darwin
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from ez_setup import use_setuptools

You didn't *call* use_setuptools, or import setuptools itself, so this 
doesn't actually mean that setuptools is okay.  The error message below is 
displayed when use_setuptools() is *called*, not when it's imported.

My guess is that setuptools isn't actually on the path, either because it 
didn't install correctly, or because the configuration for building 
SQLAlchemy doesn't specify that its build requires setuptools.


>But then the SQLAlchemy build tries to pull down setuptools, which I don't 
>want it to do:
>
>CC=gcc-3.3 /sw/bin/python2.4 setup.py build
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>This script requires setuptools version 0.6a5 to run (even to display
>help).  I will attempt to download it for you (from
><http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.4/s/setuptools/>http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.4/s/setuptools/ 
>), but
>you may need to enable firewall access for this script first.
>I will start the download in 15 seconds.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------