[Distutils] setuptools-0.6c11 package_index.py 475 return dist.clone ?

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar
<sridharr at activestate.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/2009 2:43 AM, denis wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>   in setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/package_index.py lines 468-475
>>
>> if dist is None:
>> ...
>> return dist.clone(...)
>>
>> => of course
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clone'
>
> Fixed in setuptools trunk - http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue90

Notice that this should work fine in Distribute. (the bug is from a
change in setuptools
we didn't mirror)

>
>> return None if dist is None else dist.clone(...)
>> fixes yolk.
>> (Does nobody else use yolk ? I like it, less is more;
>> which of this year's new package managers have the same functionality
>
> Does Yolk use setuptools? If so, you may try porting it to Distribute:
> http://python-distribute.org/
>
> -srid
>
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