[Python-Dev] Package install failures in 2.6.3

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:06 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> The only question is, given that 2.6.x is supposed to be a bug-fix branch, do we
>>> want to fix that incompatibility with a widely deployed existing piece of
>>> software? Whether or not the incompatibility is legitimate (i.e., whether
>>> setuptools is badly written and relies on implementation details) is beyond the
>>> point, IMO.
>>
>> Right. As discussed with Barry, I will work on an internal special
>> case in Distutils in the 2.6 maint.
>> branch so it fixes the incompatibility with the Setuptools 0.6c9 release.
>
> You could add a selective work-around that just triggers if setuptools
> has been loaded on the 2.6 branch.
>
> if sys.modules.has_key('setuptools'):
>   # monkey-patch fix-up setuptools to work with the new code
>   ...
>
> or the other way around:
>
> if sys.modules.has_key('setuptools'):
>   # undo r1234 to make setuptools 0.6c9 happy again

Yes I am working on this. I am putting setuptools specific build_ext
command into the distutils
tests to reproduce the issue, then will do a specific setuptools fix,


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