[Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

[Adam GROSZER]

Hello,

On 03/14/2013 05:25 PM, PJ Eby wrote:
> 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
>

http://winbot.zope.org/builders/distribute_dev%20py_265_win32/builds/202

> 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?

It's built from the bitbucket repo to provide the earliest possible 
warnings. Whatever you push there gets tested.

http://winbot.zope.org/builders/distribute_dev%20py_265_win32/builds/202/steps/hg/logs/stdio

>
> 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's built with an almost pristine python, which has just pywin32 installed.

>
> 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.
>

Looks like running
python.exe setup.py test
is the right command to run the tests, isn't it?


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  Adam GROSZER
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