[Distutils] ez_setup.py -U setuptools does TWO downloads, TWO installs

[John Machin]

On 11/02/2007 3:41 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 12:59 PM 2/11/2007 +1100, John Machin wrote:
>> Is this usual?
> 
> Yes.  ez_setup.py is a front-end to easy_install, that happens to also 
> download and install the latest version of setuptools.  If you want to 
> just install the latest version of setuptools, the '-U setuptools' is 
> redundant, unless you already have setuptools installed and want to 
> update it.

Can we try again, please? Refer to the console log that I included. It 
*was* upgrading:

"""Removing setuptools 0.6c3 from easy-install.pth file"""