[Distutils] Setuptools/Distribute error with 0.7.2

[Marcus Smith]

we're discussing options over in the pip issue
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/986

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com>
> wrote:
> > I think it would be highly desirable to add support for pip to handle the
> > upgrade from distribute 0.6 to 0.7. You’ll note that because 0.7 depends
> on
> > setuptools 0.7 that 0.7 has already been downloaded. Perhaps a shim like
> you
> > propose would work, or it’s also conceivable that distribute 0.7 could
> > include a setuptools 0.7 source tree which pip could leverage (but not
> > install).
>
> Wild idea: Distribute 0.7 includes a non 2to3 source tree that doesn't
> get installed. This would also solve the upgrade issue under Python 3,
> and serve as an early test for getting rid of 2to3. :-)
>
> That might then mean that Distribute 0.7 would end up only be pip
> ugradeable on Python 2.6 and later, but maybe that's OK? I certainly
> don't mind. :-)
>
> //Lennart
>
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