[IPython-dev] easy_install ipython==dev

[Andrew Straw]

Robert Kern wrote:

>Fernando Perez wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Ville,
>>
>>Ville Vainio wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Damn, it of course runs setup.py instead of eggsetup.py, which results
>>>in broken ipython scripts. Gotta explore it further, I think we need
>>>to roll setup and eggsetup into one script to make this work.
>>>      
>>>
>
>Andrew Straw suggested an approach for matplotlib that I like.
>
>import sys
>if 'setuptools' in sys.modules:
>    kwds = {'entry_points': {...}}
>else:
>    kwds = {}
>
>setup(name='ipython',
>      ...
>      **kwds
>     )
>
>  
>
And just in case people aren't sure how setuptools is supposed to get in 
sys.modules:
python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" bdist_egg