[Distutils] Distribute: will not build on Python 3 with --install-XXX arguments

[Vinay Sajip]

> From: Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>


> Thanks. I had tried distribute3 last night and it failed. But it works
> today... :-(

I've just synchronised distribute3 with distribute again. All tests pass on 2.7 and 3.2 (I wasn't able to test with 3.3) - you might want to check the latest version.

> If I do the build from a virtualenv with distribute installed,
> everything works fine. So I think the conclusion I have to come to is
> that to do anything other than install distribute from source, I need
> to be working in an environment (probably a virtualenv) with
> distribute already installed. That's a nuisance for what I'm trying to
> achieve, as it has bootstrapping consequences, but if that's what's
> needed, so be it.

Still no joy with the uninstalled setuptools, then? It seemed to work for me without any special work, but that was on Linux.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip