[Distutils] Cannot install pygtk with easy_install

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Aug 24 17:52:59 CEST 2007


At 02:34 PM 8/24/2007 +1000, james.mills at au.pwc.com wrote:
>When I do a:
>python setup.py bdist_wininst
>
>the resulting installer installs the python package but _does not_ install
>setuptools on a system that doesn't have it.
>
>I've tried to work out what I'm donig wrong for the past couple of hours
>now with no luck  :/ Would appreciate some help!

bdist_wininst (or any bdist_* format other than eggs) doesn't install 
dependencies.  Bundling ez_setup only affects source installs.



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