setuptools for mercurial-0.9.5

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Wed Oct 17 04:01:05 CDT 2007


On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:11:11PM -0500, Steve Borho wrote:
> This patch would probably gain more traction if it didn't outright
> require everyone to have setuptools installed in order to build
> Mercurial.  The patch should at least fallback to the standard distutils
> when setuptools isn't installed.  I have mixed feelings about it myself.

Well. I can improve this so that setuptools is not
required and can fallback to distutils. I would
like to see setuptools support in setup.py and tracked
by hg itself as it makes building and installing and
developing hg from source a lot easier (if you have setuptools).

cheers
James

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