[Distutils] Distribute 0.6.12 broken on Windows

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:09 -0700, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
> On 5/19/2010 3:47 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 15:10 -0700, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
> >> >  On 2010-05-19, at 2:53 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
> >> >
> >>>> >  >>  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.
> >> >
> >> >  If you were rather referring to this bug:http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/150/  - no, it has not been fixed in 0.6-maint.
> >> >
> > It would be nice to get some more help for debugging that one,
> > i lack a affected system/idea how to really reproduce
> 
> Install $package into your user site. I used "pypm install $package" for 
> this, which by defaults puts the package in the user site. And then 
> create a virtualenv, upgrade its setuptools to distribute-dev and run 
> $virtualenv/Scripts/easy_install.exe $package.
> 
> > all simple tests with a virtualenv point me to works fine now
> > (as i added the code to respect ENABLE_USER_SITE)
> 
> I found out where the problem was. This patch fixes it for me:

i think i found a more general fix of the issue, can you please try if

http://bitbucket.org/RonnyPfannschmidt/distribute-0.6 works as expected

-- Ronny

> 
> diff -r ab666b0eacbb setuptools/command/easy_install.py
> --- a/setuptools/command/easy_install.py        Wed May 19 22:43:52 2010 
> +0200
> +++ b/setuptools/command/easy_install.py        Thu May 20 14:06:56 2010 
> -0700
> @@ -1347,8 +1347,7 @@
>           site_lib = get_python_lib(plat_specific)
>           if site_lib not in sitedirs: sitedirs.append(site_lib)
> 
> -    if sys.version >= "2.6":
> -        import site
> +    if HAS_USER_SITE and site.ENABLE_USER_SITE:
>           sitedirs.append(site.USER_SITE)
> 
>       sitedirs = map(normalize_path, sitedirs)
> 
> -srid