[Distutils] How to best install pkg_resources?

[Arve Knudsen]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:24 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>
>> At 01:42 PM 12/14/2010 +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Using Distribute in my setup.py, how do I best ensure that pkg_resources
>>> gets installed along with my package? I've tried
>>> 'install_requires=["setuptools>=0.6"]' as an argument to setup(), but
>>> setuptools didn't get installed.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I don't know about Distribute, but it should definitely get installed if
>> you're using setuptools.  Under what installation scenario(s) did setuptools
>> *not* get installed?
>>
>
> Basically, my project bundles Distribute through distribute_setup.py, so
> Distribute doesn't need to be preinstalled. When I try to install my project
> (through 'python setup.py install') on a machine without
> setuptools/pkg_resources installed, however, setuptools does not get
> installed.
>
> I'll try to reduce this to a simple case, i.e. a dummy project that
> requires setuptools.
>

This is strange, with a super-simple case (see attachment), Distribute gets
installed without even having to state install_requires. Apparently,
Distribute is supposed to install itself automatically. I wonder what goes
wrong in my more elaborate project..

Arve
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