[Distutils] Distribute 0.6.12 broken on Windows

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On 2010-05-19, at 2:51 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar
> <sridharr at activestate.com> wrote:
>> On 5/19/2010 5:07 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Sridhar Ratnakumar
>>> <sridharr at activestate.com>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>  May I call your attention to this bug?
>>>>> 
>>>>>    http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/151/
>>>>> 
>>>>>  0.6.12 broke Windows installation. Are we not planning a new release?
>>> 
>>> The problem was fixed. Can you check on your side that everything is
>>> running fine,
>>> so I can do a new release
>>> 
>>> You can clone the repo and get in the 0.6-maintenance branch,
>> 
>> 0.6-maintenance installs fine on Python 2.7:
>>  http://gist.github.com/406877
>> 
>> I have also verified further by using the installed easy_install to install
>> a sample package.
>> 
>> Looks good to me, at least on Python trunk (2.7) compiled a week ago.
>> 
>> Similarly, 0.6-maintenance also installs successfully on Python 2.6.5.
>> 
> 
> Ronny has fixed the .local / ENABLE_USER_SITE flag if you want to give
> it a shot too

You mean "easy_install --user"? Yup, that too works as expected.

-srid