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Re: [pygame] Should setuptools be used by setup.py? (and a bdist_mpkg_support Mac question)



ah, it's good if it doesn't require setup tools.

I've seen a bunch of reports from people where they require setup
tools, and get back cryptic messages about eggs and chickens.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A setuptools bug that prevented compilation when Pyrex is installed has
>  been fixed. Now I am considering enabling setuptools by default for all
>  builds. This will allow the building of eggs. It also means that the
>  setup.py install command installs an egg rather than a normal packaged
>  directory. Is this a good idea? I have not seeing problems with my
>  Windows builds. If setuptools in not present then setup.py will just use
>  vanilla distutils. But I see that the loading of setuptools is
>  conditional on bdist_mpkg_support. So I wish to confirm this dependency
>  for the Mac. Does setuptools require bdist_mpkg, or is bdist_mpkg only
>  dependent on setuptools?
>
>  --
>  Lenard Lindstrom
>  <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>