[Distutils] Limitations of setup_requires

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Oct 3 23:37:50 CEST 2006


At 06:04 PM 10/2/2006 -0700, Joshua Boverhof wrote:
>I have a package specified in both "setup_requires" and
>"install_requires", the package is downloaded and used during setup
>but it is never installed in site-packages like the other entry.
>This is happening on both my Mac and a Linux box.
>
>This fails for me with setuptools-0.6c3, python2.5, but works with w/ 
>python2.4

Interesting.  My one theory of how this problem might be happening, should 
cause it to fail on *all* versions of Python.  Are you sure that you don't 
just happen to already have ZSI installed in your python 2.4 site-packages 
directory?

Thanks.



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