[Python-Dev] Package install failures in 2.6.3 (original) (raw)

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Mon Oct 5 16:40:02 CEST 2009 

Tarek> That's why we have forked and created Distribute, to provide bug
Tarek> fixes.

I suspect you might need to publicize this a bit better. The first I heard of Distribute or non-responsiveness of PJE regarding setuptools was this thread. (I don't read comp.lang.python anymore. I do read python-dev and comp.lang.python.announce. Maybe I just missed it.)

Tarek> Now I am astonished that we are talking about reverting changes
Tarek> in Distutils that were done for bugfixes, for a third party
Tarek> package that does monkey patches on Distutils.

As I said, I was completely unaware of the problems you're addressing with Distribute. My guess is that many extension writers and almost certainly those people who install extensions will be similarly unaware of the issues.

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