setuptools for mercurial-0.9.5

[James Mills]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:22:08PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> There's a severe problem with setuptools for developers, namely that it 
> forcibly prepends the path to a package onto the front of sys.path in a way 
> that cannot be overridden.  This makes it impossible to have two versions 
> of a package installed simultaneously in different locations. This is a 
> piece of design for which I have a hard time finding polite words.
>
> I don't care if people want to screw up their systems that way, but it must 
> not be the default behaviour of Mercurial's setup.py, or we won't even be 
> able to run unit tests.

I personally never install different versions of anything
but the patch I posted in my previous email will not
use setuptools if it isn't installed. So you'll be fine :)

cheers
James

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