[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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