[Distutils] How to force installing setuptools instead of distribute ?

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Jul 1 17:51:18 CEST 2010


At 12:37 AM 7/2/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:18 AM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Did you try asking for an *exact* version of setuptools with '==' 
> (not using
> > '>=' or leaving off a version)?
>
>Yes. The exact command I have tried is
>
>easy_install setuptools==0.6c11

Ouch.  I was under the impression that it only masqueraded as 
setuptools when given a ranged request, not an exact request.  That's 
unfortunate.



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