[Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

[PJ Eby]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Adam GROSZER <agroszer.ll at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I can offer you some help, by providing some windows support in the
> means of testing with various python versions and building binary
> packages/installers.
>
> Note, current tests are failing...
>
> http://winbot.zope.org/builders

That looks like the same problem other people are seeing; the problem
is that the source you're building from lacks a proper
setuptools.egg-info/entry_points.txt.  Are you building from revision
control directly, or from an sdist?

A possible workaround is to build with a working version of setuptools
or distribute on sys.path when you run setup.py.  The distribute
modules will get imported, but the egg-info will get picked up from
elsewhere, enabling the proper functionality.  (Setuptools doesn't
have this problem because it includes the entry_points.txt and other
critical .egg-info files in its revision control.)

It would appear that either the entry_points.txt was recently removed,
or there was some other workaround for its absence which has recently
been removed; I have not had time to investigate, and in any case am
not that familiar with the distribute side of things.