[Distutils] setuptools 0.7a for Python 3 fails to build on Windows

[Lennart Regebro]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 23:37, Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com> wrote:
> Lennart,
>        That seems to have done the trick.  Between that fix and using the
> 64-bit cli.exe and gui.exe from http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue2, I
> was able to install setuptools on Python 3.0.1 64-bit on Windows Vista SP1
> and run easy_install.  For that build in particular, a Windows installer is
> available at
> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/54081/setuptools-0.7a1.win-amd64.exe. I'll try to
> put together a 32-bit build also later.
>
>        Thanks so much for doing the Python 3 port.  I'll be sure to report
> back if I encounter any further problems.
>
>        Now I can get started porting my namespace packages to Python 3.

OK, Cool.

I'll try to put in the 2to3 support that I have made for
zope.interfaces soon. That should easy porting as well.

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