[Distutils] Package in both setup_requires and install_requires will not be installed

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:23 PM 9/15/2007 +0100, Michael Hoffman wrote:
>Joshua Boverhof previously reported this in
><http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-March/007436.html>.
>
>If you specify a package in setup_requires it will be built in the
>current directory. But even if it is in install_requires as well, it
>won't be installed because the requirement is already satisfied at setup
>time by the package in the build directory.
>
>Is there a workaround for this?

It is now fixed in the trunk and 0.6 branch.  I expect to be making a 
new release in a few weeks, at which time you'll be able to update 
your ez_setup.py version to require a version of setuptools that 
doesn't have this problem any more.