distribute 0.6.8

Disclaimers

Installation Instructions

Distribute is only released as a source distribution.

It can be installed using easy_install or pip, and can be done so with the source tarball, the eggs distribution, or by using the distribute_setup.py script provided online.

distribute_setup.py is the simplest and preferred way on all systems.

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ python distribute_setup.py

$ easy_install -U distribute
$ pip install distribute

$ easy_install -U distribute==dev

$ curl -O http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.8.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf distribute-0.6.8.tar.gz
$ cd distribute-0.6.8
$ python setup.py install

Uninstallation Instructions

Like other distutils-based distributions, Distribute doesn’t provide an uninstaller yet. It’s all done manually! We are all waiting for PEP 376 support in Python.

Distribute is installed in three steps:

1. it gets out of the way an existing installation of Setuptools

2. it installs a fake setuptools installation

3. it installs distribute

Distribute can be removed like this:

• run easy_install -m Distribute. This will remove the Distribute reference from easy-install.pth. Otherwise, edit the file and remove it yourself.

• remove the distribute*.egg file located in your site-packages directory

• remove the setuptools.pth file located in you site-packages directory

• remove the easy_install script located in you sys.prefix/bin directory

• remove the setuptools*.egg directory located in your site-packages directory, if any.

If you want to get back to setuptools:

• reinstall setuptools using its instruction.

Lastly:

• remove the .OLD. directory located in your site-packages directory if any, once you have checked everything was working correctly again.

Quick help for developers

To use Distribute in your package, the recommended way is to ship distribute_setup.py alongside your setup.py script and call it at the very begining of setup.py like this:

from distribute_setup import use_setuptools
use_setuptools()

Another way is to add Distribute in the install_requires option:

from setuptools import setup

setup(...
      install_requires=['distribute']
)

Install FAQ

• Why Distribute turn my Setuptools installation into an fake one?

  Since Distribute is a fork, and since it provides the same package and modules, it fakes that the Setuptools installation is still present, so all the programs that where using Setuptools still work.

  If it wasn’t doing it, a program that would try to install Setuptools would overwrite in turn Distribute.

• How does Distribute interact with virtualenv?

  Everytime you create a virtualenv it will install setuptools by default. You either need to re-install Distribute in it right after or pass the --distribute option when creating it.

  Once installed, your virtualenv will use Distribute transparently.

  Although, if you have Setuptools installed in your system-wide Python, and if the virtualenv you are in was generated without the –no-site-packages option, the Distribute installation will stop.

  You need in this case to build a virtualenv with the –no-site-packages option or to install Distribute globally.

• How does Distribute interacts with zc.buildout?

  You can use Distribute in your zc.buildout, with the –distribute option, starting at zc.buildout 1.4.2:

  $ python bootstrap.py --distribute

  For previous zc.buildout versions, the only thing you need to do is use the bootstrap at http://python-distribute.org/bootstrap.py. Run that bootstrap and bin/buildout (and all other buildout-generated scripts) will transparently use distribute instead of setuptools. You do not need a specific buildout release.

  A shared eggs directory is no problem (since 0.6.6): the setuptools egg is left in place unmodified. So other buildouts that do not yet use the new bootstrap continue to work just fine. And there is no need to list distribute somewhere in your eggs: using the bootstrap is enough.

  The source code for the bootstrap script is located at http://bitbucket.org/tarek/buildout-distribute.

Feedback and getting involved

• Mailing list: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

• Issue tracker: http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issues/

• Code Repository: http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute

0.6.8

• Added “check_packages” in dist. (added in Setuptools 0.6c11)

• Fixed the DONT_PATCH_SETUPTOOLS state.

0.6.7

• Issue 58: Added –user support to the develop command

• Issue 11: Generated scripts now wrap their call to the script entry point in the standard “if name == ‘main’”

• Added the ‘DONT_PATCH_SETUPTOOLS’ environment variable, so virtualenv can drive an installation that doesn’t patch a global setuptools.

• Reviewed unladen-swallow specific change from http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/detail?spec=svn875&r=719 and determined that it no longer applies. Distribute should work fine with Unladen Swallow 2009Q3.

• Issue 21: Allow PackageIndex.open_url to gracefully handle all cases of a httplib.HTTPException instead of just InvalidURL and BadStatusLine.

• Removed virtual-python.py from this distribution and updated documentation to point to the actively maintained virtualenv instead.

• Issue 64: use_setuptools no longer rebuilds the distribute egg every time it is run

• use_setuptools now properly respects the requested version

• use_setuptools will no longer try to import a distribute egg for the wrong Python version

• Issue 74: no_fake should be True by default.

• Issue 72: avoid a bootstrapping issue with easy_install -U

0.6.6

• Unified the bootstrap file so it works on both py2.x and py3k without 2to3 (patch by Holger Krekel)

0.6.5

• Issue 65: cli.exe and gui.exe are now generated at build time, depending on the platform in use.

• Issue 67: Fixed doc typo (PEP 381/382)

• Distribute no longer shadows setuptools if we require a 0.7-series setuptools. And an error is raised when installing a 0.7 setuptools with distribute.

• When run from within buildout, no attempt is made to modify an existing setuptools egg, whether in a shared egg directory or a system setuptools.

• Fixed a hole in sandboxing allowing builtin file to write outside of the sandbox.

0.6.4

• Added the generation of distribute_setup_3k.py during the release. This close http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/52.

• Added an upload_docs command to easily upload project documentation to PyPI’s http://packages.python.org. This close http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/56.

• Fixed a bootstrap bug on the use_setuptools() API.

0.6.3

0.6.2

0.6.1

0.6