[Distutils] Breakage of fetch in setuptools-0.6a10-py2.4.egg

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:55 PM 3/30/2006 -0800, Grig Gheorghiu wrote:
>Can I do it with a setuptools-aware setup.py installation file?
>
>I ran easy_install with the options you mentioned and it created
>setuptools-0.6a11dev_r43297-py2.4.egg. I then tried to require this
>version in setup.py like this:
>
>         install_requires = ["setuptools==0.6a11dev_r43297",
>                     ],

A better way to do this is to do:

     from ez_setup import use_setuptools
     use_setuptools()

And this will ensure that the user updates to 0.6a11 before running.  See 
these links for more info:

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#using-setuptools-without-bundling-it

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#managing-multiple-projects