[Distutils] Buildout using Distribute 0.6

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 16:14:38 CEST 2009


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> This is probably zc.buildout setup.py script because it contains
>> "install_requires = 'setuptools',"
>
> Not on my branch it doesn't...
>
>> That's why you need to install Distribute using distribute_setup.py
>> for instance,
>
> Which my branch does...
> My be worth taking a look at the code ;-)
>
> http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/branches/use_distribute/

Your traceback suggests something requires setuptools.
You migh want to put some logs in pkg_resources.resolve

also, make sure Distribute was properly installed: you should
have a "setuptools*.egg-info" directory besides Distribute.


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