'setuptools >= 0.6' requirement impossible to satisfy about pyrseas HOT 11 CLOSED

Please tell me how you tried to install it. Was it with "python setup.py install" or with "pip install Pyrseas"? I installed with the latter method (into a virtualenv) and didn't have any errors.

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BTW, what got installed for setuptools is actually distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg,

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I also tried "python setup.py install" onto another virtualenv and didn't have a problem either. Note that it didn't look for setuptools >= 0.6, but instead for distribute==0.6.24. I suspect this is an issue with setuptools/distribute on FreeBSD. On Linux (Debian), at the OS level, I have the python-setuptools (0.6.24-1) package installed.

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Hm.. after I did pip install distribute, it proceeds. Maybe it would be better to specify exact distribute and not setuptools?

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I did a small survey (bottle, cherrypy, flask, pyramid, tornado, trac, twisted, webob, werkzeug) and found that only Trac specifies a version of setuptools and Pyramid has it as a non-versioned install_requires, even though they almost all import setuptools. Therefore, I think we should drop the 'setuptools >= 0.6' line from the Pyrseas setup.py.

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Yeah, it is supposed setuptools already installed in OS distribution. The only reason I see projects require setuptools is when they need some special features not present in previous versions. Also the requirement for setuptools will be obvious when one without setuptools installed will try to run python setup.py install — you can just catch ImportError and write a nice message with explanations.

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Andrey, do you have any more to add on this, or should we go ahead and close it?

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I still have to run pip install distribute before installing Pyrseas on FreeBSD.

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OK, for the time being I'll document this as a special installation requirement for FreeBSD, or presumably *BSD. Later I'll see if I can investigate this in more detail on a FreeBSD VM.

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See 96ca2b4 for documentation update.

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Ok, so closing it.

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