[Distutils] Incompatibility issue with setuptools 0.6c7-py2.4 and workingenv-0.6.5-py2.4

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:06 AM 10/8/2007 +0300, Lauri Hallila wrote:
>On 10/8/07, Lauri Hallila 
><<mailto:laurihallila at gmail.com>laurihallila at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I noticed a small problem in setuptools... workingenv (version 
>0.6.5-py2.4), in some instances, adds a comment-line "# Duplicating 
>setuptools' site.py..." into the beginning of site.py (workingenv.py 
>, line 1214). Problem is that easy_install.py checks if the existing 
>file site.py starts with "def __boot():", and if it doesn't, it 
>raises an error.
>
>I fixed the problem in my own environment by skipping empty and 
>comment-lines in easy_install.py (fixed file attached).
>
>I just thought to inform you of the problem... feel free to take my 
>fix into setuptools if you like my way to fix the problem.

Unless you're on a Mac, you should probably upgrade from workingenv 
to virtualenv:

   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/

Virtualenv does not patch setuptools, and so can't have this problem.