[Pythonmac-SIG] Appscript and Snow Leopard and setuptools...

[has]

On 14 Sep 2009, at 16:28, Bill Janssen wrote:

> has <hengist.podd at virgin.net> wrote:
>
>> You can install appscript from source using plain old distutils; the
>> setup.py script will use setuptools if it's available and distutils  
>> if
>> not. Though if there are problems with setuptools then I'd suggest
>> filing bug reports on that as well.
>
> I'd like to suggest an option to use distutils even if setuptools is
> available.

Don't know how that could be done automatically as both use the same  
setup.py file. If you want to do it manually, replace the first five  
lines in the setup.py script with this:

from distutils.core import setup, Extension


> Filing bug reports on setuptools seems like a losing proposition; I'd
> have to understand how it works first.  How about *you* file the bug
> reports there?  You're the one using it.

I've not had any problems using it myself.

Regards,

has
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