[Distutils] How to best install pkg_resources?

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:42 PM 12/14/2010 +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote:
>Hi
>
>Using Distribute in my setup.py, how do I best ensure that 
>pkg_resources gets installed along with my package? I've tried 
>'install_requires=["setuptools>=0.6"]' as an argument to setup(), 
>but setuptools didn't get installed.


I don't know about Distribute, but it should definitely get installed 
if you're using setuptools.  Under what installation scenario(s) did 
setuptools *not* get installed?