Re: [pysqlite] Can no longer build eggs with 2.5.1?

"Joshua J. Kugler" <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:52:45 -0900
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.pysqlite.user
Organization EE Internet
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On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Joshua J. Kugler said something like:
> In the release announcement for 2.5.1, it says:
>
> "got rid of setuptools; everything could be done with plain distutils
> as well"
>
> That's not quite true.  extended_setup.py would accept the command
> bdist_egg; setup.py does not.  Is there another way to build eggs
> with much hackery?  If not, it'll be a great inconvenience.

I fixed it with this patch:

-from distutils.core import setup, Extension, Command
+from setuptools import setup
+from distutils.core import Extension, Command

Brings distutils back in, but at least I can build eggs.

j

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