[SciPy-dev] Scikits, installation of setuptools required ?

[David Cournapeau]

Robert Kern wrote:
> David Cournapeau wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I was trying to test my package converted for scikits on windows. I 
>> never use windows, so I install the bare minimum to test my python 
>> packages, which does not contain setuptools. One the point of setuptools 
>> was to be able to boostrap itself anyway from what I understood.
>>     This works ok, up to the point where when I want to run it, I have a 
>> failure because pkg_resources is not found (in the scikits/__init__.py). 
>> Does that mean that we cannot use the bootstraping capability of 
>> setuptools, and we require setuptools to be installed ? Or did I do 
>> something wrong ?
>
> I do not recommend using the ez_setup bootstrap. It is deprecated.
Ok, I didn't know that. I used it because I didn't have setuptools on 
windows (which I only use for testing my packages), but as I have to 
install setuptools, there is no reason to keep the boostrapping anyway.

David