[Distutils] Distribute 0.6.2 - testing the release - help needed!

[Alex Grönholm]

Tarek Ziadé kirjoitti:
> 2009/9/23 Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>:
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>> Tarek Ziadé kirjoitti:
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>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The next Distribute version will be released soon, with python 3
>>> support (thanks to Martin, Lennart, and Alex !)
>>> and more bug fixed. (you can follow that in the issue tracker)
>>>
>>> If you want to give a hand on testing the next Distribute version,
>>> I've uploaded a dev version of the trunk of Distribute at
>>> nightly.ziade.org, meaning that you can try the upcoming release
>>> (at your own risks ;) )
>>>
>>> - the tarball : http://nightly.ziade.org/distribute-0.6.2dev.tar.gz
>>> - a modified distribute_setup.py script that will install the dev
>>> version : http://nightly.ziade.org/distribute_setup_dev.py
>>> - a modified bootstrap.py file that will let you bootstrap a
>>> zc.buildout environment with this version
>>>
>>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated,
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tarek
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Successfully tested installing distribute on 32-bit WinXP, on Python 3.1.1.
>> Tried easy_install too, works fine.
>> Regarding the failure with 64-bit Win7, I uninstalled the 64-bit Python and
>> then installed the 32-bit version, and now easy_install works just fine. I
>> think there ought to be 64-bit stubs too -- I don't know how else to explain
>> the problems with the 64-bit Python.
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> Could you check if your failure is one of those, please ?
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> - http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue2
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Yes, this is precisely what I am experiencing. Good to see someone's 
already looked into it and come up with a solution!
> - http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue3
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> Tarek
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