[Distutils] problem finding an entry point

[Kevin Dangoor]

On 9/6/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 12:34 PM 9/6/2006 -0400, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
> >On 9/6/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> >>Maybe you should do this:
> >>
> >>  >>> import pkg_resources
> >>  >>> print list(pkg_resources.working_set)
> >>  >>> print sys.path
> >>
> >>And send me the result.
> >
> >OK, here goes:
> >
> >>>>import sys
> >>>>import pkg_resources
> >>>>print list(pkg_resources.working_set)
> >[setuptools 0.6c1
> >(/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c1-py2.4.egg),
> >nose 0.9.0 (/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages)]
>
> Aha!  It just occurred to me that a bug I thought was fixed in 0.6c1 is
> actually only fixed in 0.6c2 (not yet released).
>
> Could you try installing 0.6.c2dev-r50757, via:
>
>      easy_install setuptools==dev06
>
> and see if that fixes your problem?  I think this is an already-fixed
> bug.  I thought it was limited to case-insensitive filesystems (e.g.
> Windows), but it looks like it would also apply to symlinks, and produce
> the results you're seeing.

Yep, that fixes it.

Thanks!
Kevin