[IPython-dev] Requiring distribute on Windows
Brian Granger
ellisonbg at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 14:01:38 EDT 2011
Hi,
In the course of testing IPython.parallel on Windows, Min and I have
discovered that ipcluster won't work on Windows unless distribute is
installed and used to install IPython. The reason is that setuptools
has a bug that interacts with multiprocessing in a subtle, nasty way.
Min has been using distribute all along for testing and dev., so we
didn't see it until now. This leads to a question:
Should we required distribute to be installed and used to install
IPython on Windows?
I am not sure how this will affect the .msi installer. We might be
able to relax the requirement for that installer as the command line
scripts are created differently.
Cheers,
Brian
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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
bgranger at calpoly.edu and ellisonbg at gmail.com
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