From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: error when installing 1.7.0.1: "ImportError: No module named distutils.core"
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:24:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1003010724g7c4d2517v1515b846e288713a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be6fef0d1003010715l31d7b49bs36ee69685e1684e8@mail.gmail.com>
Heya,
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 16:15, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> wrote:
> (adding Sverre to the Cc list, perhaps he has something to add)
This is Johan's code, but IIRC setup.py is pretty much generic setuptools code.
> you need to install setuptools from python, or pass NO_PYTHON to make/configure.
Correct.
>> I've checked the README and INSTALL file, but I don't see that there are new
>> requirements? (That is not regarding doc.)
>
> I guess we should improve on this.
Aye, at the very least we need to document this requirement, but it
would probably be even better to test for the existence of setuptools
and give a useful error message if it's not found?
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-01 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 14:40 error when installing 1.7.0.1: "ImportError: No module named distutils.core" Oliver Kullmann
2010-03-01 15:15 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-03-01 15:24 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2010-03-01 18:21 ` Julian Phillips
2010-03-01 18:32 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-03-01 16:15 ` Todd Zullinger
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2010-03-01 17:04 Oliver Kullmann
2010-03-01 17:26 ` Sverre Rabbelier
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