UcheOgbuji/Migration_to_distribute

It seems Guido and many Pythoneers have spoken: enough of setuptools; long live distribute.

In order to make the switch I did the following on my Mac Snow Leopard install.

$ sudo -i easy_install distribute
Searching for distribute
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/distribute/
Best match: distribute 0.6.4
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.4.tar.gz#md5=7a963679fddc64a0e363b2ccf8024952
Processing distribute-0.6.4.tar.gz
Running distribute-0.6.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-zoA4JL/distribute-0.6.4/egg-dist-tmp-8G2_zM
Before install bootstrap.
Scanning installed packages
Setuptools installation detected at /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python
Non-egg installation
Removing elements out of the way...
Renaming /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg-info into /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg-info.OLD.1255461962.96
Renaming /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/setuptools into /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/setuptools.OLD.1255461962.97
Renaming /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py into /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py.OLD.1255461962.97
Renaming /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/site.py into /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/site.py.OLD.1255461963.0
Patched done.
Relaunching...
Before install bootstrap.
Scanning installed packages
Setuptools installation detected at /private/tmp/easy_install-zoA4JL/distribute-0.6.4
Non-egg installation
Could not locate setuptools*.egg-info
After install bootstrap.
Creating /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg-info
Creating /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/setuptools.pth
Copying distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg to /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
Adding distribute 0.6.4 to easy-install.pth file
Installing easy_install script to /usr/local/bin
Installing easy_install-2.6 script to /usr/local/bin

Installed /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.4-py2.6.egg
Processing dependencies for distribute
Finished processing dependencies for distribute

sudo -i was required to avoid environment mix-up according to my setup.

The first thing I checked was that I could do python setup.py install and python setup.py sdist for current trunk of Amara and Akara 2.x. That all seemed to work well.

Then I installed a package I hadn't done before: easy_install paver. I ran into environment problems and it turned out there was still the setuptools-based /usr/bin/easy_install in addition to the new /usr/local/bin/easy_install provided by Distribute. I solved this as follows:

sudo mv /usr/bin/easy_install /usr/bin/easy_install.save

So far things seem to be working OK.