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Installing and Using Setuptools ¶

Table of Contents

Installing and Using Setuptools
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CHANGES
- 2.1
- 2.0.2
- 2.0.1
- 2.0
- 1.4.2
- 1.4.1
- 1.4
- 1.3.2
- 1.3.1
- 1.3
- 1.2
- 1.1.7
- 1.1.6
- 1.1.5
- 1.1.4
- 1.1.3
- 1.1.2
- 1.1.1
- 1.1
- 1.0
  - Backward-Incompatible Changes
  +
- 0.9.8
- 0.9.7
- 0.9.6
- 0.9.5
- 0.9.4
- 0.9.3
- 0.9.2
- 0.9.1
- 0.9
- 0.8
- 0.7.8
- 0.7.7
- 0.7.6
- 0.7.5
- 0.7.4
- 0.7.3
- 0.7.2
- 0.7.1
- 0.7
- 0.7b4
- 0.6.49
- 0.6.48
- 0.6.47
- 0.6.46
- 0.6.45
- 0.6.44
- 0.6.43
- 0.6.42
- 0.6.41
- 0.6.40
- 0.6.39
- 0.6.38
- 0.6.37
- 0.6.36
- 0.6.35
- 0.6.34
- 0.6.33
- 0.6.32
- 0.6.31
- 0.6.30
- 0.6.29
- 0.6.28
- 0.6.27
- 0.6.26
- 0.6.25
- 0.6.24
- 0.6.23
- 0.6.21
- 0.6.20
- 0.6.19
- 0.6.18
- 0.6.17
- 0.6.16
- 0.6.15
- 0.6.14
- 0.6.13
- 0.6.12
- 0.6.11
- 0.6.10
- 0.6.9
- 0.6.8
- 0.6.7
- 0.6.6
- 0.6.5
- 0.6.4
- 0.6.3
  - setuptools
  - bootstrapping
  +
- 0.6.2
  - setuptools
  - bootstrapping
  +
- 0.6.1
  - setuptools
  - bootstrapping
  +
- 0.6
  - setuptools
  - pkg_resources
  - easy_install
  +
- 0.6c9
- 0.6c7
- 0.6c6
- 0.6c5
- 0.6c4
- 0.6c3
- 0.6c2
- 0.6c1
- 0.6b4
- 0.6b3
- 0.6b1
- 0.6a11
- 0.6a10
- 0.6a9
- 0.6a8
- 0.6a5
- 0.6a3
- 0.6a2
- 0.6a1
- 0.5a12
- 0.5a11
- 0.5a9
- 0.5a8
- 0.5a7
- 0.5a6
- 0.5a5
- 0.5a4
- 0.5a1
- 0.4a2
- 0.3a2
- 0.3a1
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Installation Instructions ¶

Upgrading from Distribute ¶

Currently, Distribute disallows installing Setuptools 0.7+ over Distribute. +You must first uninstall any active version of Distribute first (see +Uninstalling).

Upgrading from Setuptools 0.6 ¶

Upgrading from prior versions of Setuptools is supported. Initial reports +good success in this regard.

Windows ¶

The recommended way to install setuptools on Windows is to download +ez_setup.py and run it. The script will download the appropriate .egg +file and install it for you.

For best results, uninstall previous versions FIRST (see Uninstalling).

Once installation is complete, you will find an easy_install program in +your Python Scripts subdirectory. For simple invocation and best results, +add this directory to your PATH environment variable, if it is not already +present.

Unix-based Systems including Mac OS X ¶

Download ez_setup.py and run it using the target Python version. The script +will download the appropriate version and install it for you:

> wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python

Note that you will may need to invoke the command with superuser privileges to +install to the system Python:

> wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | sudo python

Alternatively, on Python 2.6 and later, Setuptools may be installed to a +user-local path:

> wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
+> python ez_setup.py --user

Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 support ¶

Setuptools 2.0 and later requires Python 2.6 or later. To install setuptools +on Python 2.4 or Python 2.5, use the bootstrap script for Setuptools 1.x: +https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap-py24/ez_setup.py.

Advanced Installation ¶

For more advanced installation options, such as installing to custom +locations or prefixes, download and extract the source +tarball from Setuptools on PyPI +and run setup.py with any supported distutils and Setuptools options. +For example:

setuptools-x.x$ python setup.py --prefix=/opt/setuptools

Use --help to get a full options list, but we recommend consulting +the EasyInstall manual for detailed instructions, especially the section +on custom installation locations.

Downloads ¶

All setuptools downloads can be found at the project’s home page in the Python +Package Index. Scroll to the very bottom of the page to find the links.

In addition to the PyPI downloads, the development version of setuptools +is available from the Bitbucket repo, and in-development versions of the +0.6 branch are available as well.

Uninstalling ¶

On Windows, if Setuptools was installed using an .exe or .msi +installer, simply use the uninstall feature of “Add/Remove Programs” in the +Control Panel.

Otherwise, to uninstall Setuptools or Distribute, regardless of the Python +version, delete all setuptools* and distribute* files and +directories from your system’s site-packages directory +(and any other sys.path directories) FIRST.

If you are upgrading or otherwise plan to re-install Setuptools or Distribute, +nothing further needs to be done. If you want to completely remove Setuptools, +you may also want to remove the ‘easy_install’ and ‘easy_install-x.x’ scripts +and associated executables installed to the Python scripts directory.

Using Setuptools and EasyInstall ¶

Here are some of the available manuals, tutorials, and other resources for +learning about Setuptools, Python Eggs, and EasyInstall:

The EasyInstall user’s guide and reference manual
The setuptools Developer’s Guide
The pkg_resources API reference
Package Compatibility Notes (user-maintained)
The Internal Structure of Python Eggs

Questions, comments, and bug reports should be directed to the distutils-sig +mailing list. If you have written (or know of) any tutorials, documentation, +plug-ins, or other resources for setuptools users, please let us know about +them there, so this reference list can be updated. If you have working, +tested patches to correct problems or add features, you may submit them to +the setuptools bug tracker.

Credits ¶

The original design for the .egg format and the pkg_resources API was +co-created by Phillip Eby and Bob Ippolito. Bob also implemented the first +version of pkg_resources, and supplied the OS X operating system version +compatibility algorithm.
Ian Bicking implemented many early “creature comfort” features of +easy_install, including support for downloading via Sourceforge and +Subversion repositories. Ian’s comments on the Web-SIG about WSGI +application deployment also inspired the concept of “entry points” in eggs, +and he has given talks at PyCon and elsewhere to inform and educate the +community about eggs and setuptools.
Jim Fulton contributed time and effort to build automated tests of various +aspects of easy_install, and supplied the doctests for the command-line +.exe wrappers on Windows.
Phillip J. Eby is the seminal author of setuptools, and +first proposed the idea of an importable binary distribution format for +Python application plug-ins.
Significant parts of the implementation of setuptools were funded by the Open +Source Applications Foundation, to provide a plug-in infrastructure for the +Chandler PIM application. In addition, many OSAF staffers (such as Mike +“Code Bear” Taylor) contributed their time and stress as guinea pigs for the +use of eggs and setuptools, even before eggs were “cool”. (Thanks, guys!)
Since the merge with Distribute, Jason R. Coombs is the +maintainer of setuptools. The project is maintained in coordination with +the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) and the larger Python community.

CHANGES ¶

2.1 ¶

Issue #129: Suppress inspection of ‘*.whl’ files when searching for files +in a zip-imported file.
Issue #131: Fix RuntimeError when constructing an egg fetcher.

2.0.2 ¶

Fix NameError during installation with Python implementations (e.g. Jython) +not containing parser module.
Fix NameError in sdist:re_finder.

2.0.1 ¶

Issue #124: Fixed error in list detection in upload_docs.

2.0 ¶

Issue #121: Exempt lib2to3 pickled grammars from DirectorySandbox.
Issue #41: Dropped support for Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. Clients requiring +setuptools for those versions of Python should use setuptools 1.x.
Removed setuptools.command.easy_install.HAS_USER_SITE. Clients +expecting this boolean variable should use site.ENABLE_USER_SITE +instead.
Removed pkg_resources.ImpWrapper. Clients that expected this class +should use pkgutil.ImpImporter instead.

1.4.2 ¶

Issue #116: Correct TypeError when reading a local package index on Python +3.

1.4.1 ¶

Issue #114: Use sys.getfilesystemencoding for decoding config in +bdist_wininst distributions.
+

Issue #105 and Issue #113: Establish a more robust technique for +determining the terminal encoding:

1. Try ``getpreferredencoding``
+2. If that returns US_ASCII or None, try the encoding from
+   ``getdefaultlocale``. If that encoding was a "fallback" because Python
+   could not figure it out from the environment or OS, encoding remains
+   unresolved.
+3. If the encoding is resolved, then make sure Python actually implements
+   the encoding.
+4. On the event of an error or unknown codec, revert to fallbacks
+   (UTF-8 on Darwin, ASCII on everything else).
+5. On the encoding is 'mac-roman' on Darwin, use UTF-8 as 'mac-roman' was
+   a bug on older Python releases.
+
+On a side note, it would seem that the encoding only matters for when SVN
+does not yet support ``--xml`` and when getting repository and svn version
+numbers. The ``--xml`` technique should yield UTF-8 according to some
+messages on the SVN mailing lists. So if the version numbers are always
+7-bit ASCII clean, it may be best to only support the file parsing methods
+for legacy SVN releases and support for SVN without the subprocess command
+would simple go away as support for the older SVNs does.

1.4 ¶

Issue #27: easy_install will now use credentials from .pypirc if +present for connecting to the package index.
Pull Request #21: Omit unwanted newlines in package_index._encode_auth +when the username/password pair length indicates wrapping.

1.3.2 ¶

Issue #99: Fix filename encoding issues in SVN support.

1.3.1 ¶

Remove exuberant warning in SVN support when SVN is not used.

1.3 ¶

Address security vulnerability in SSL match_hostname check as reported in +Python #17997.
Prefer backports.ssl_match_hostname for backport +implementation if present.
Correct NameError in ssl_support module (socket.error).

1.2 ¶

Issue #26: Add support for SVN 1.7. Special thanks to Philip Thiem for the +contribution.
Issue #93: Wheels are now distributed with every release. Note that as +reported in Issue #108, as of Pip 1.4, scripts aren’t installed properly +from wheels. Therefore, if using Pip to install setuptools from a wheel, +the easy_install command will not be available.
Setuptools “natural” launcher support, introduced in 1.0, is now officially +supported.

1.1.7 ¶

Fixed behavior of NameError handling in ‘script template (dev).py’ (script +launcher for ‘develop’ installs).
ez_setup.py now ensures partial downloads are cleaned up following +a failed download.
Distribute #363 and Issue #55: Skip an sdist test that fails on locales +other than UTF-8.

1.1.6 ¶

Distribute #349: sandbox.execfile now opens the target file in binary +mode, thus honoring a BOM in the file when compiled.

1.1.5 ¶

Issue #69: Second attempt at fix (logic was reversed).

1.1.4 ¶

Issue #77: Fix error in upload command (Python 2.4).

1.1.3 ¶

Fix NameError in previous patch.

1.1.2 ¶

Issue #69: Correct issue where 404 errors are returned for URLs with +fragments in them (such as #egg=).

1.1.1 ¶

Issue #75: Add --insecure option to ez_setup.py to accommodate +environments where a trusted SSL connection cannot be validated.
Issue #76: Fix AttributeError in upload command with Python 2.4.

1.1 ¶

Issue #71 (Distribute #333): EasyInstall now puts less emphasis on the +condition when a host is blocked via --allow-hosts.
Issue #72: Restored Python 2.4 compatibility in ez_setup.py.

1.0 ¶

Issue #60: On Windows, Setuptools supports deferring to another launcher, +such as Vinay Sajip’s pylauncher +(included with Python 3.3) to launch console and GUI scripts and not install +its own launcher executables. This experimental functionality is currently +only enabled if the SETUPTOOLS_LAUNCHER environment variable is set to +“natural”. In the future, this behavior may become default, but only after +it has matured and seen substantial adoption. The SETUPTOOLS_LAUNCHER +also accepts “executable” to force the default behavior of creating launcher +executables.
Issue #63: Bootstrap script (ez_setup.py) now prefers Powershell, curl, or +wget for retrieving the Setuptools tarball for improved security of the +install. The script will still fall back to a simple urlopen on +platforms that do not have these tools.
Issue #65: Deprecated the Features functionality.
Issue #52: In VerifyingHTTPSConn, handle a tunnelled (proxied) +connection.

Backward-Incompatible Changes ¶

This release includes a couple of backward-incompatible changes, but most if +not all users will find 1.0 a drop-in replacement for 0.9.

Issue #50: Normalized API of environment marker support. Specifically, +removed line number and filename from SyntaxErrors when returned from +pkg_resources.invalid_marker. Any clients depending on the specific +string representation of exceptions returned by that function may need to +be updated to account for this change.
Issue #50: SyntaxErrors generated by pkg_resources.invalid_marker are +normalized for cross-implementation consistency.
Removed --ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk and --delete-conflicting +options to easy_install. These options have been deprecated since 0.6a11.

0.9.8 ¶

Issue #53: Fix NameErrors in _vcs_split_rev_from_url.

0.9.7 ¶

Issue #49: Correct AttributeError on PyPy where a hashlib.HASH object does +not have a .name attribute.
Issue #34: Documentation now refers to bootstrap script in code repository +referenced by bookmark.
Add underscore-separated keys to environment markers (markerlib).

0.9.6 ¶

Issue #44: Test failure on Python 2.4 when MD5 hash doesn’t have a .name +attribute.

0.9.5 ¶

Python #17980: Fix security vulnerability in SSL certificate validation.

0.9.4 ¶

Issue #43: Fix issue (introduced in 0.9.1) with version resolution when +upgrading over other releases of Setuptools.

0.9.3 ¶

Issue #42: Fix new AttributeError introduced in last fix.

0.9.2 ¶

Issue #42: Fix regression where blank checksums would trigger an +AttributeError.

0.9.1 ¶

Distribute #386: Allow other positional and keyword arguments to os.open.
Corrected dependency on certifi mis-referenced in 0.9.

0.9 ¶

package_index now validates hashes other than MD5 in download links.

0.8 ¶

Code base now runs on Python 2.4 - Python 3.3 without Python 2to3 +conversion.

0.7.8 ¶

Distribute #375: Yet another fix for yet another regression.

0.7.7 ¶

Distribute #375: Repair AttributeError created in last release (redo).
Issue #30: Added test for get_cache_path.

0.7.6 ¶

Distribute #375: Repair AttributeError created in last release.

0.7.5 ¶

Issue #21: Restore Python 2.4 compatibility in test_easy_install.
Distribute #375: Merged additional warning from Distribute 0.6.46.
Now honor the environment variable +SETUPTOOLS_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT in addition to the now +deprecated DISTRIBUTE_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT.

0.7.4 ¶

Issue #20: Fix comparison of parsed SVN version on Python 3.

0.7.3 ¶

Issue #1: Disable installation of Windows-specific files on non-Windows systems.
Use new sysconfig module with Python 2.7 or >=3.2.

0.7.2 ¶

Issue #14: Use markerlib when the parser module is not available.
Issue #10: ez_setup.py now uses HTTPS to download setuptools from PyPI.

0.7.1 ¶

Fix NameError (Issue #3) again - broken in bad merge.

0.7 ¶

Merged Setuptools and Distribute. See docs/merge.txt for details.

Added several features that were slated for setuptools 0.6c12:

Index URL now defaults to HTTPS.
Added experimental environment marker support. Now clients may designate a +PEP-426 environment marker for “extra” dependencies. Setuptools uses this +feature in setup.py for optional SSL and certificate validation support +on older platforms. Based on Distutils-SIG discussions, the syntax is +somewhat tentative. There should probably be a PEP with a firmer spec before +the feature should be considered suitable for use.
Added support for SSL certificate validation when installing packages from +an HTTPS service.

0.7b4 ¶

Issue #3: Fixed NameError in SSL support.

0.6.49 ¶

Move warning check in get_cache_path to follow the directory creation +to avoid errors when the cache path does not yet exist. Fixes the error +reported in Distribute #375.

0.6.48 ¶

Correct AttributeError in ResourceManager.get_cache_path introduced in +0.6.46 (redo).

0.6.47 ¶

Correct AttributeError in ResourceManager.get_cache_path introduced in +0.6.46.

0.6.46 ¶

Distribute #375: Issue a warning if the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE or otherwise +customized egg cache location specifies a directory that’s group- or +world-writable.

0.6.45 ¶

Distribute #379: distribute_setup.py now traps VersionConflict as well, +restoring ability to upgrade from an older setuptools version.

0.6.44 ¶

distribute_setup.py has been updated to allow Setuptools 0.7 to +satisfy use_setuptools.

0.6.43 ¶

Distribute #378: Restore support for Python 2.4 Syntax (regression in 0.6.42).

0.6.42 ¶

External links finder no longer yields duplicate links.
Distribute #337: Moved site.py to setuptools/site-patch.py (graft of very old +patch from setuptools trunk which inspired PR #31).

0.6.41 ¶

Distribute #27: Use public api for loading resources from zip files rather than +the private method _zip_directory_cache.
Added a new function easy_install.get_win_launcher which may be used by +third-party libraries such as buildout to get a suitable script launcher.

0.6.40 ¶

Distribute #376: brought back cli.exe and gui.exe that were deleted in the +previous release.

0.6.39 ¶

Add support for console launchers on ARM platforms.
Fix possible issue in GUI launchers where the subsystem was not supplied to +the linker.
Launcher build script now refactored for robustness.
Distribute #375: Resources extracted from a zip egg to the file system now also +check the contents of the file against the zip contents during each +invocation of get_resource_filename.

0.6.38 ¶

Distribute #371: The launcher manifest file is now installed properly.

0.6.37 ¶

Distribute #143: Launcher scripts, including easy_install itself, are now +accompanied by a manifest on 32-bit Windows environments to avoid the +Installer Detection Technology and thus undesirable UAC elevation described +in this Microsoft article.

0.6.36 ¶

Pull Request #35: In Buildout #64, it was reported that +under Python 3, installation of distutils scripts could attempt to copy +the __pycache__ directory as a file, causing an error, apparently only +under Windows. Easy_install now skips all directories when processing +metadata scripts.

0.6.35 ¶

Note this release is backward-incompatible with distribute 0.6.23-0.6.34 in +how it parses version numbers.

Distribute #278: Restored compatibility with distribute 0.6.22 and setuptools +0.6. Updated the documentation to match more closely with the version +parsing as intended in setuptools 0.6.

0.6.34 ¶

Distribute #341: 0.6.33 fails to build under Python 2.4.

0.6.33 ¶

Fix 2 errors with Jython 2.5.
Fix 1 failure with Jython 2.5 and 2.7.
Disable workaround for Jython scripts on Linux systems.
Distribute #336: setup.py no longer masks failure exit code when tests fail.
Fix issue in pkg_resources where try/except around a platform-dependent +import would trigger hook load failures on Mercurial. See pull request 32 +for details.
Distribute #341: Fix a ResourceWarning.

0.6.32 ¶

Fix test suite with Python 2.6.
Fix some DeprecationWarnings and ResourceWarnings.
Distribute #335: Backed out setup_requires superceding installed requirements +until regression can be addressed.

0.6.31 ¶

Distribute #303: Make sure the manifest only ever contains UTF-8 in Python 3.
+
Distribute #329: Properly close files created by tests for compatibility with +Jython.
+
Work around Jython #1980 and Jython #1981.
+
Distribute #334: Provide workaround for packages that reference sys.__stdout__ +such as numpy does. This change should address +virtualenv `#359 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/359>`_ as long +as the system encoding is UTF-8 or the IO encoding is specified in the +environment, i.e.:
+
```
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 pip install numpy
```
+
+
Fix for encoding issue when installing from Windows executable on Python 3.
+
Distribute #323: Allow setup_requires requirements to supercede installed +requirements. Added some new keyword arguments to existing pkg_resources +methods. Also had to updated how __path__ is handled for namespace packages +to ensure that when a new egg distribution containing a namespace package is +placed on sys.path, the entries in __path__ are found in the same order they +would have been in had that egg been on the path when pkg_resources was +first imported.
+

0.6.30 ¶

Distribute #328: Clean up temporary directories in distribute_setup.py.
Fix fatal bug in distribute_setup.py.

0.6.29 ¶

Pull Request #14: Honor file permissions in zip files.
Distribute #327: Merged pull request #24 to fix a dependency problem with pip.
Merged pull request #23 to fix https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/301.
If Sphinx is installed, the upload_docs command now runs build_sphinx +to produce uploadable documentation.
Distribute #326: upload_docs provided mangled auth credentials under Python 3.
Distribute #320: Fix check for “createable” in distribute_setup.py.
Distribute #305: Remove a warning that was triggered during normal operations.
Distribute #311: Print metadata in UTF-8 independent of platform.
Distribute #303: Read manifest file with UTF-8 encoding under Python 3.
Distribute #301: Allow to run tests of namespace packages when using 2to3.
Distribute #304: Prevent import loop in site.py under Python 3.3.
Distribute #283: Reenable scanning of *.pyc / *.pyo files on Python 3.3.
Distribute #299: The develop command didn’t work on Python 3, when using 2to3, +as the egg link would go to the Python 2 source. Linking to the 2to3’d code +in build/lib makes it work, although you will have to rebuild the module +before testing it.
Distribute #306: Even if 2to3 is used, we build in-place under Python 2.
Distribute #307: Prints the full path when .svn/entries is broken.
Distribute #313: Support for sdist subcommands (Python 2.7)
Distribute #314: test_local_index() would fail an OS X.
Distribute #310: Non-ascii characters in a namespace __init__.py causes errors.
Distribute #218: Improved documentation on behavior of package_data and +include_package_data. Files indicated by package_data are now included +in the manifest.
distribute_setup.py now allows a –download-base argument for retrieving +distribute from a specified location.

0.6.28 ¶

Distribute #294: setup.py can now be invoked from any directory.
Scripts are now installed honoring the umask.
Added support for .dist-info directories.
Distribute #283: Fix and disable scanning of *.pyc / *.pyo files on +Python 3.3.

0.6.27 ¶

Support current snapshots of CPython 3.3.
Distribute now recognizes README.rst as a standard, default readme file.
Exclude ‘encodings’ modules when removing modules from sys.modules. +Workaround for #285.
Distribute #231: Don’t fiddle with system python when used with buildout +(bootstrap.py)

0.6.26 ¶

Distribute #183: Symlinked files are now extracted from source distributions.
Distribute #227: Easy_install fetch parameters are now passed during the +installation of a source distribution; now fulfillment of setup_requires +dependencies will honor the parameters passed to easy_install.

0.6.25 ¶

Distribute #258: Workaround a cache issue
Distribute #260: distribute_setup.py now accepts the –user parameter for +Python 2.6 and later.
Distribute #262: package_index.open_with_auth no longer throws LookupError +on Python 3.
Distribute #269: AttributeError when an exception occurs reading Manifest.in +on late releases of Python.
Distribute #272: Prevent TypeError when namespace package names are unicode +and single-install-externally-managed is used. Also fixes PIP issue +449.
Distribute #273: Legacy script launchers now install with Python2/3 support.

0.6.24 ¶

Distribute #249: Added options to exclude 2to3 fixers

0.6.23 ¶

Distribute #244: Fixed a test
Distribute #243: Fixed a test
Distribute #239: Fixed a test
Distribute #240: Fixed a test
Distribute #241: Fixed a test
Distribute #237: Fixed a test
Distribute #238: easy_install now uses 64bit executable wrappers on 64bit Python
Distribute #208: Fixed parsed_versions, it now honors post-releases as noted in the documentation
Distribute #207: Windows cli and gui wrappers pass CTRL-C to child python process
Distribute #227: easy_install now passes its arguments to setup.py bdist_egg
Distribute #225: Fixed a NameError on Python 2.5, 2.4

0.6.21 ¶

Distribute #225: FIxed a regression on py2.4

0.6.20 ¶

Distribute #135: Include url in warning when processing URLs in package_index.
Distribute #212: Fix issue where easy_instal fails on Python 3 on windows installer.
Distribute #213: Fix typo in documentation.

0.6.19 ¶

Distribute #206: AttributeError: ‘HTTPMessage’ object has no attribute ‘getheaders’

0.6.18 ¶

Distribute #210: Fixed a regression introduced by Distribute #204 fix.

0.6.17 ¶

Support ‘DISTRIBUTE_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT’ environment +variable to allow to disable installation of easy_install-${version} script.
Support Python >=3.1.4 and >=3.2.1.
Distribute #204: Don’t try to import the parent of a namespace package in +declare_namespace
Distribute #196: Tolerate responses with multiple Content-Length headers
Distribute #205: Sandboxing doesn’t preserve working_set. Leads to setup_requires +problems.

0.6.16 ¶

Builds sdist gztar even on Windows (avoiding Distribute #193).
Distribute #192: Fixed metadata omitted on Windows when package_dir +specified with forward-slash.
Distribute #195: Cython build support.
Distribute #200: Issues with recognizing 64-bit packages on Windows.

0.6.15 ¶

Fixed typo in bdist_egg
Several issues under Python 3 has been solved.
Distribute #146: Fixed missing DLL files after easy_install of windows exe package.

0.6.14 ¶

Distribute #170: Fixed unittest failure. Thanks to Toshio.
Distribute #171: Fixed race condition in unittests cause deadlocks in test suite.
Distribute #143: Fixed a lookup issue with easy_install. +Thanks to David and Zooko.
Distribute #174: Fixed the edit mode when its used with setuptools itself

0.6.13 ¶

Distribute #160: 2.7 gives ValueError(“Invalid IPv6 URL”)
Distribute #150: Fixed using ~/.local even in a –no-site-packages virtualenv
Distribute #163: scan index links before external links, and don’t use the md5 when +comparing two distributions

0.6.12 ¶

Distribute #149: Fixed various failures on 2.3/2.4

0.6.11 ¶

Found another case of SandboxViolation - fixed
Distribute #15 and Distribute #48: Introduced a socket timeout of 15 seconds on url openings
Added indexsidebar.html into MANIFEST.in
Distribute #108: Fixed TypeError with Python3.1
Distribute #121: Fixed –help install command trying to actually install.
Distribute #112: Added an os.makedirs so that Tarek’s solution will work.
Distribute #133: Added –no-find-links to easy_install
Added easy_install –user
Distribute #100: Fixed develop –user not taking ‘.’ in PYTHONPATH into account
Distribute #134: removed spurious UserWarnings. Patch by VanLindberg
Distribute #138: cant_write_to_target error when setup_requires is used.
Distribute #147: respect the sys.dont_write_bytecode flag

0.6.10 ¶

Reverted change made for the DistributionNotFound exception because +zc.buildout uses the exception message to get the name of the +distribution.

0.6.9 ¶

Distribute #90: unknown setuptools version can be added in the working set
Distribute #87: setupt.py doesn’t try to convert distribute_setup.py anymore +Initial Patch by arfrever.
Distribute #89: added a side bar with a download link to the doc.
Distribute #86: fixed missing sentence in pkg_resources doc.
Added a nicer error message when a DistributionNotFound is raised.
Distribute #80: test_develop now works with Python 3.1
Distribute #93: upload_docs now works if there is an empty sub-directory.
Distribute #70: exec bit on non-exec files
Distribute #99: now the standalone easy_install command doesn’t uses a +“setup.cfg” if any exists in the working directory. It will use it +only if triggered by install_requires from a setup.py call +(install, develop, etc).
Distribute #101: Allowing os.devnull in Sandbox
Distribute #92: Fixed the “no eggs” found error with MacPort +(platform.mac_ver() fails)
Distribute #103: test_get_script_header_jython_workaround not run +anymore under py3 with C or POSIX local. Contributed by Arfrever.
Distribute #104: remvoved the assertion when the installation fails, +with a nicer message for the end user.
Distribute #100: making sure there’s no SandboxViolation when +the setup script patches setuptools.

0.6.8 ¶

Added “check_packages” in dist. (added in Setuptools 0.6c11)
Fixed the DONT_PATCH_SETUPTOOLS state.

0.6.7 ¶

Distribute #58: Added –user support to the develop command
Distribute #11: Generated scripts now wrap their call to the script entry point +in the standard “if name == ‘main’”
Added the ‘DONT_PATCH_SETUPTOOLS’ environment variable, so virtualenv +can drive an installation that doesn’t patch a global setuptools.
Reviewed unladen-swallow specific change from +http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/detail?spec=svn875&r=719 +and determined that it no longer applies. Distribute should work fine with +Unladen Swallow 2009Q3.
Distribute #21: Allow PackageIndex.open_url to gracefully handle all cases of a +httplib.HTTPException instead of just InvalidURL and BadStatusLine.
Removed virtual-python.py from this distribution and updated documentation +to point to the actively maintained virtualenv instead.
Distribute #64: use_setuptools no longer rebuilds the distribute egg every +time it is run
use_setuptools now properly respects the requested version
use_setuptools will no longer try to import a distribute egg for the +wrong Python version
Distribute #74: no_fake should be True by default.
Distribute #72: avoid a bootstrapping issue with easy_install -U

0.6.6 ¶

Unified the bootstrap file so it works on both py2.x and py3k without 2to3 +(patch by Holger Krekel)

0.6.5 ¶

Distribute #65: cli.exe and gui.exe are now generated at build time, +depending on the platform in use.
Distribute #67: Fixed doc typo (PEP 381/382)
Distribute no longer shadows setuptools if we require a 0.7-series +setuptools. And an error is raised when installing a 0.7 setuptools with +distribute.
When run from within buildout, no attempt is made to modify an existing +setuptools egg, whether in a shared egg directory or a system setuptools.
Fixed a hole in sandboxing allowing builtin file to write outside of +the sandbox.

0.6.4 ¶

Added the generation of distribute_setup_3k.py during the release. +This closes Distribute #52.
Added an upload_docs command to easily upload project documentation to +PyPI’s https://pythonhosted.org. This close issue Distribute #56.
Fixed a bootstrap bug on the use_setuptools() API.

0.6.3 ¶

setuptools ¶

Fixed a bunch of calls to file() that caused crashes on Python 3.

bootstrapping ¶

Fixed a bug in sorting that caused bootstrap to fail on Python 3.

0.6.2 ¶

setuptools ¶

Added Python 3 support; see docs/python3.txt. +This closes Old Setuptools #39.
Added option to run 2to3 automatically when installing on Python 3. +This closes issue Distribute #31.
Fixed invalid usage of requirement.parse, that broke develop -d. +This closes Old Setuptools #44.
Fixed script launcher for 64-bit Windows. +This closes Old Setuptools #2.
KeyError when compiling extensions. +This closes Old Setuptools #41.

bootstrapping ¶

Fixed bootstrap not working on Windows. This closes issue Distribute #49.
Fixed 2.6 dependencies. This closes issue Distribute #50.
Make sure setuptools is patched when running through easy_install +This closes Old Setuptools #40.

0.6.1 ¶

setuptools ¶

package_index.urlopen now catches BadStatusLine and malformed url errors. +This closes Distribute #16 and Distribute #18.
zip_ok is now False by default. This closes Old Setuptools #33.
Fixed invalid URL error catching. Old Setuptools #20.
Fixed invalid bootstraping with easy_install installation (Distribute #40). +Thanks to Florian Schulze for the help.
Removed buildout/bootstrap.py. A new repository will create a specific +bootstrap.py script.

bootstrapping ¶

The boostrap process leave setuptools alone if detected in the system +and –root or –prefix is provided, but is not in the same location. +This closes Distribute #10.

0.6 ¶

setuptools ¶

Packages required at build time where not fully present at install time. +This closes Distribute #12.
Protected against failures in tarfile extraction. This closes Distribute #10.
Made Jython api_tests.txt doctest compatible. This closes Distribute #7.
sandbox.py replaced builtin type file with builtin function open. This +closes Distribute #6.
Immediately close all file handles. This closes Distribute #3.
Added compatibility with Subversion 1.6. This references Distribute #1.

pkg_resources ¶

Avoid a call to /usr/bin/sw_vers on OSX and use the official platform API +instead. Based on a patch from ronaldoussoren. This closes issue #5.
Fixed a SandboxViolation for mkdir that could occur in certain cases. +This closes Distribute #13.
Allow to find_on_path on systems with tight permissions to fail gracefully. +This closes Distribute #9.
Corrected inconsistency between documentation and code of add_entry. +This closes Distribute #8.
Immediately close all file handles. This closes Distribute #3.

easy_install ¶

Immediately close all file handles. This closes Distribute #3.

0.6c9 ¶

+
+
Fixed a missing files problem when using Windows source distributions on +non-Windows platforms, due to distutils not handling manifest file line +endings correctly.
+
Updated Pyrex support to work with Pyrex 0.9.6 and higher.
+
Minor changes for Jython compatibility, including skipping tests that can’t +work on Jython.
+
Fixed not installing eggs in install_requires if they were also used for +setup_requires or tests_require.
+
Fixed not fetching eggs in install_requires when running tests.
+
Allow ez_setup.use_setuptools() to upgrade existing setuptools +installations when called from a standalone setup.py.
+
Added a warning if a namespace package is declared, but its parent package +is not also declared as a namespace.
+
Support Subversion 1.5
+
Removed use of deprecated md5 module if hashlib is available
+
Fixed bdist_wininst upload trying to upload the .exe twice
+
Fixed bdist_egg putting a native_libs.txt in the source package’s +.egg-info, when it should only be in the built egg’s EGG-INFO.
+
Ensure that _full_name is set on all shared libs before extensions are +checked for shared lib usage. (Fixes a bug in the experimental shared +library build support.)
+
Fix to allow unpacked eggs containing native libraries to fail more +gracefully under Google App Engine (with an ImportError loading the +C-based module, instead of getting a NameError).
+
+

0.6c7 ¶

+
+
Fixed distutils.filelist.findall() crashing on broken symlinks, and +egg_info command failing on new, uncommitted SVN directories.
+
Fix import problems with nested namespace packages installed via +--root or --single-version-externally-managed, due to the +parent package not having the child package as an attribute.
+
+

0.6c6 ¶

+
+
Added --egg-path option to develop command, allowing you to force +.egg-link files to use relative paths (allowing them to be shared across +platforms on a networked drive).
+
Fix not building binary RPMs correctly.
+
Fix “eggsecutables” (such as setuptools’ own egg) only being runnable with +bash-compatible shells.
+
Fix #! parsing problems in Windows .exe script wrappers, when there +was whitespace inside a quoted argument or at the end of the #! line +(a regression introduced in 0.6c4).
+
Fix test command possibly failing if an older version of the project +being tested was installed on sys.path ahead of the test source +directory.
+
Fix find_packages() treating ez_setup and directories with . in +their names as packages.
+
+

0.6c5 ¶

+
+
Fix uploaded bdist_rpm packages being described as bdist_egg +packages under Python versions less than 2.5.
+
Fix uploaded bdist_wininst packages being described as suitable for +“any” version by Python 2.5, even if a --target-version was specified.
+
+

0.6c4 ¶

+
+
Overhauled Windows script wrapping to support bdist_wininst better. +Scripts installed with bdist_wininst will always use #!python.exe or +#!pythonw.exe as the executable name (even when built on non-Windows +platforms!), and the wrappers will look for the executable in the script’s +parent directory (which should find the right version of Python).
+
Fix upload command not uploading files built by bdist_rpm or +bdist_wininst under Python 2.3 and 2.4.
+
Add support for “eggsecutable” headers: a #!/bin/sh script that is +prepended to an .egg file to allow it to be run as a script on Unix-ish +platforms. (This is mainly so that setuptools itself can have a single-file +installer on Unix, without doing multiple downloads, dealing with firewalls, +etc.)
+
Fix problem with empty revision numbers in Subversion 1.4 entries files
+
Use cross-platform relative paths in easy-install.pth when doing +develop and the source directory is a subdirectory of the installation +target directory.
+
Fix a problem installing eggs with a system packaging tool if the project +contained an implicit namespace package; for example if the setup() +listed a namespace package foo.bar without explicitly listing foo +as a namespace package.
+
+

0.6c3 ¶

+
+
Fixed breakages caused by Subversion 1.4’s new “working copy” format
+
+

0.6c2 ¶

+
+
The ez_setup module displays the conflicting version of setuptools (and +its installation location) when a script requests a version that’s not +available.
+
Running setup.py develop on a setuptools-using project will now install +setuptools if needed, instead of only downloading the egg.
+
+

0.6c1 ¶

+
+
Fixed AttributeError when trying to download a setup_requires +dependency when a distribution lacks a dependency_links setting.
+
Made zip-safe and not-zip-safe flag files contain a single byte, so +as to play better with packaging tools that complain about zero-length +files.
+
Made setup.py develop respect the --no-deps option, which it +previously was ignoring.
+
Support extra_path option to setup() when install is run in +backward-compatibility mode.
+
Source distributions now always include a setup.cfg file that explicitly +sets egg_info options such that they produce an identical version number +to the source distribution’s version number. (Previously, the default +version number could be different due to the use of --tag-date, or if +the version was overridden on the command line that built the source +distribution.)
+
+

0.6b4 ¶

+
+
Fix register not obeying name/version set by egg_info command, if +egg_info wasn’t explicitly run first on the same command line.
+
Added --no-date and --no-svn-revision options to egg_info +command, to allow suppressing tags configured in setup.cfg.
+
Fixed redundant warnings about missing README file(s); it should now +appear only if you are actually a source distribution.
+
+

0.6b3 ¶

+
+
Fix bdist_egg not including files in subdirectories of .egg-info.
+
Allow .py files found by the include_package_data option to be +automatically included. Remove duplicate data file matches if both +include_package_data and package_data are used to refer to the same +files.
+
+

0.6b1 ¶

+
+
Strip module from the end of compiled extension modules when computing +the name of a .py loader/wrapper. (Python’s import machinery ignores +this suffix when searching for an extension module.)
+
+

0.6a11 ¶

+
+
Added test_loader keyword to support custom test loaders
+
Added setuptools.file_finders entry point group to allow implementing +revision control plugins.
+
Added --identity option to upload command.
+
Added dependency_links to allow specifying URLs for --find-links.
+
Enhanced test loader to scan packages as well as modules, and call +additional_tests() if present to get non-unittest tests.
+
Support namespace packages in conjunction with system packagers, by omitting +the installation of any __init__.py files for namespace packages, and +adding a special .pth file to create a working package in +sys.modules.
+
Made --single-version-externally-managed automatic when --root is +used, so that most system packagers won’t require special support for +setuptools.
+
Fixed setup_requires, tests_require, etc. not using setup.cfg or +other configuration files for their option defaults when installing, and +also made the install use --multi-version mode so that the project +directory doesn’t need to support .pth files.
+
MANIFEST.in is now forcibly closed when any errors occur while reading +it. Previously, the file could be left open and the actual error would be +masked by problems trying to remove the open file on Windows systems.
+
+

0.6a10 ¶

+
+
Fixed the develop command ignoring --find-links.
+
+

0.6a9 ¶

+
+
The sdist command no longer uses the traditional MANIFEST file to +create source distributions. MANIFEST.in is still read and processed, +as are the standard defaults and pruning. But the manifest is built inside +the project’s .egg-info directory as SOURCES.txt, and it is rebuilt +every time the egg_info command is run.
+
Added the include_package_data keyword to setup(), allowing you to +automatically include any package data listed in revision control or +MANIFEST.in
+
Added the exclude_package_data keyword to setup(), allowing you to +trim back files included via the package_data and +include_package_data options.
+
Fixed --tag-svn-revision not working when run from a source +distribution.
+
Added warning for namespace packages with missing declare_namespace()
+
Added tests_require keyword to setup(), so that e.g. packages +requiring nose to run unit tests can make this dependency optional +unless the test command is run.
+
Made all commands that use easy_install respect its configuration +options, as this was causing some problems with setup.py install.
+
Added an unpack_directory() driver to setuptools.archive_util, so +that you can process a directory tree through a processing filter as if it +were a zipfile or tarfile.
+
Added an internal install_egg_info command to use as part of old-style +install operations, that installs an .egg-info directory with the +package.
+
Added a --single-version-externally-managed option to the install +command so that you can more easily wrap a “flat” egg in a system package.
+
Enhanced bdist_rpm so that it installs single-version eggs that +don’t rely on a .pth file. The --no-egg option has been removed, +since all RPMs are now built in a more backwards-compatible format.
+
Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from bdist_wininst +format. Running bdist_wininst on a setuptools-based package wraps the +egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata +and entry-point wrapper scripts), and easy_install can turn the .exe +back into an .egg file or directory and install it as such.
+
+

0.6a8 ¶

+
+
Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially +with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
+
Made develop command accept all the same options as easy_install, +and use the easy_install command’s configuration settings as defaults.
+
Made egg_info --tag-svn-revision fall back to extracting the revision +number from PKG-INFO in case it is being run on a source distribution of +a snapshot taken from a Subversion-based project.
+
Automatically detect .dll, .so and .dylib files that are being +installed as data, adding them to native_libs.txt automatically.
+
Fixed some problems with fresh checkouts of projects that don’t include +.egg-info/PKG-INFO under revision control and put the project’s source +code directly in the project directory. If such a package had any +requirements that get processed before the egg_info command can be run, +the setup scripts would fail with a “Missing ‘Version:’ header and/or +PKG-INFO file” error, because the egg runtime interpreted the unbuilt +metadata in a directory on sys.path (i.e. the current directory) as +being a corrupted egg. Setuptools now monkeypatches the distribution +metadata cache to pretend that the egg has valid version information, until +it has a chance to make it actually be so (via the egg_info command).
+
+

0.6a5 ¶

+
+
Fixed missing gui/cli .exe files in distribution. Fixed bugs in tests.
+
+

0.6a3 ¶

+
+
Added gui_scripts entry point group to allow installing GUI scripts +on Windows and other platforms. (The special handling is only for Windows; +other platforms are treated the same as for console_scripts.)
+
+

0.6a2 ¶

+
+
Added console_scripts entry point group to allow installing scripts +without the need to create separate script files. On Windows, console +scripts get an .exe wrapper so you can just type their name. On other +platforms, the scripts are written without a file extension.
+
+

0.6a1 ¶

+
+
Added support for building “old-style” RPMs that don’t install an egg for +the target package, using a --no-egg option.
+
The build_ext command now works better when using the --inplace +option and multiple Python versions. It now makes sure that all extensions +match the current Python version, even if newer copies were built for a +different Python version.
+
The upload command no longer attaches an extra .zip when uploading +eggs, as PyPI now supports egg uploads without trickery.
+
The ez_setup script/module now displays a warning before downloading +the setuptools egg, and attempts to check the downloaded egg against an +internal MD5 checksum table.
+
Fixed the --tag-svn-revision option of egg_info not finding the +latest revision number; it was using the revision number of the directory +containing setup.py, not the highest revision number in the project.
+
Added eager_resources setup argument
+
The sdist command now recognizes Subversion “deleted file” entries and +does not include them in source distributions.
+
setuptools now embeds itself more thoroughly into the distutils, so that +other distutils extensions (e.g. py2exe, py2app) will subclass setuptools’ +versions of things, rather than the native distutils ones.
+
Added entry_points and setup_requires arguments to setup(); +setup_requires allows you to automatically find and download packages +that are needed in order to build your project (as opposed to running it).
+
setuptools now finds its commands, setup() argument validators, and +metadata writers using entry points, so that they can be extended by +third-party packages. See Creating distutils Extensions +for more details.
+
The vestigial depends command has been removed. It was never finished +or documented, and never would have worked without EasyInstall - which it +pre-dated and was never compatible with.
+
+

0.5a12 ¶

+
+
The zip-safety scanner now checks for modules that might be used with +python -m, and marks them as unsafe for zipping, since Python 2.4 can’t +handle -m on zipped modules.
+
+

0.5a11 ¶

+
+
Fix breakage of the “develop” command that was caused by the addition of +--always-unzip to the easy_install command.
+
+

0.5a9 ¶

+
+
Include svn:externals directories in source distributions as well as +normal subversion-controlled files and directories.
+
Added exclude=patternlist option to setuptools.find_packages()
+
Changed –tag-svn-revision to include an “r” in front of the revision number +for better readability.
+
Added ability to build eggs without including source files (except for any +scripts, of course), using the --exclude-source-files option to +bdist_egg.
+
setup.py install now automatically detects when an “unmanaged” package +or module is going to be on sys.path ahead of a package being installed, +thereby preventing the newer version from being imported. If this occurs, +a warning message is output to sys.stderr, but installation proceeds +anyway. The warning message informs the user what files or directories +need deleting, and advises them they can also use EasyInstall (with the +--delete-conflicting option) to do it automatically.
+
The egg_info command now adds a top_level.txt file to the metadata +directory that lists all top-level modules and packages in the distribution. +This is used by the easy_install command to find possibly-conflicting +“unmanaged” packages when installing the distribution.
+
Added zip_safe and namespace_packages arguments to setup(). +Added package analysis to determine zip-safety if the zip_safe flag +is not given, and advise the author regarding what code might need changing.
+
Fixed the swapped -d and -b options of bdist_egg.
+
+

0.5a8 ¶

+
+
The “egg_info” command now always sets the distribution metadata to “safe” +forms of the distribution name and version, so that distribution files will +be generated with parseable names (i.e., ones that don’t include ‘-‘ in the +name or version). Also, this means that if you use the various --tag +options of “egg_info”, any distributions generated will use the tags in the +version, not just egg distributions.
+
Added support for defining command aliases in distutils configuration files, +under the “[aliases]” section. To prevent recursion and to allow aliases to +call the command of the same name, a given alias can be expanded only once +per command-line invocation. You can define new aliases with the “alias” +command, either for the local, global, or per-user configuration.
+
Added “rotate” command to delete old distribution files, given a set of +patterns to match and the number of files to keep. (Keeps the most +recently-modified distribution files matching each pattern.)
+
Added “saveopts” command that saves all command-line options for the current +invocation to the local, global, or per-user configuration file. Useful for +setting defaults without having to hand-edit a configuration file.
+
Added a “setopt” command that sets a single option in a specified distutils +configuration file.
+
+

0.5a7 ¶

+
+
Added “upload” support for egg and source distributions, including a bug +fix for “upload” and a temporary workaround for lack of .egg support in +PyPI.
+
+

0.5a6 ¶

+
+
Beefed up the “sdist” command so that if you don’t have a MANIFEST.in, it +will include all files under revision control (CVS or Subversion) in the +current directory, and it will regenerate the list every time you create a +source distribution, not just when you tell it to. This should make the +default “do what you mean” more often than the distutils’ default behavior +did, while still retaining the old behavior in the presence of MANIFEST.in.
+
Fixed the “develop” command always updating .pth files, even if you +specified -n or --dry-run.
+
Slightly changed the format of the generated version when you use +--tag-build on the “egg_info” command, so that you can make tagged +revisions compare lower than the version specified in setup.py (e.g. by +using --tag-build=dev).
+
+

0.5a5 ¶

+
+
Added develop command to setuptools-based packages. This command +installs an .egg-link pointing to the package’s source directory, and +script wrappers that execfile() the source versions of the package’s +scripts. This lets you put your development checkout(s) on sys.path without +having to actually install them. (To uninstall the link, use +use setup.py develop --uninstall.)
+
Added egg_info command to setuptools-based packages. This command +just creates or updates the “projectname.egg-info” directory, without +building an egg. (It’s used by the bdist_egg, test, and develop +commands.)
+
Enhanced the test command so that it doesn’t install the package, but +instead builds any C extensions in-place, updates the .egg-info +metadata, adds the source directory to sys.path, and runs the tests +directly on the source. This avoids an “unmanaged” installation of the +package to site-packages or elsewhere.
+
Made easy_install a standard setuptools command, moving it from +the easy_install module to setuptools.command.easy_install. Note +that if you were importing or extending it, you must now change your imports +accordingly. easy_install.py is still installed as a script, but not as +a module.
+
+

0.5a4 ¶

+
+
Setup scripts using setuptools can now list their dependencies directly in +the setup.py file, without having to manually create a depends.txt file. +The install_requires and extras_require arguments to setup() +are used to create a dependencies file automatically. If you are manually +creating depends.txt right now, please switch to using these setup +arguments as soon as practical, because depends.txt support will be +removed in the 0.6 release cycle. For documentation on the new arguments, +see the setuptools.dist.Distribution class.
+
Setup scripts using setuptools now always install using easy_install +internally, for ease of uninstallation and upgrading.
+
+

0.5a1 ¶

+
+
Added support for “self-installation” bootstrapping. Packages can now +include ez_setup.py in their source distribution, and add the following +to their setup.py, in order to automatically bootstrap installation of +setuptools as part of their setup process:
+
from ez_setup import use_setuptools
+use_setuptools()
+
+from setuptools import setup
+# etc...
+
+
+
+
+

0.4a2 ¶

+
+
Added ez_setup.py installer/bootstrap script to make initial setuptools +installation easier, and to allow distributions using setuptools to avoid +having to include setuptools in their source distribution.
+
All downloads are now managed by the PackageIndex class (which is now +subclassable and replaceable), so that embedders can more easily override +download logic, give download progress reports, etc. The class has also +been moved to the new setuptools.package_index module.
+
The Installer class no longer handles downloading, manages a temporary +directory, or tracks the zip_ok option. Downloading is now handled +by PackageIndex, and Installer has become an easy_install +command class based on setuptools.Command.
+
There is a new setuptools.sandbox.run_setup() API to invoke a setup +script in a directory sandbox, and a new setuptools.archive_util module +with an unpack_archive() API. These were split out of EasyInstall to +allow reuse by other tools and applications.
+
setuptools.Command now supports reinitializing commands using keyword +arguments to set/reset options. Also, Command subclasses can now set +their command_consumes_arguments attribute to True in order to +receive an args option containing the rest of the command line.
+
+

0.3a2 ¶

+
+
Added new options to bdist_egg to allow tagging the egg’s version number +with a subversion revision number, the current date, or an explicit tag +value. Run setup.py bdist_egg --help to get more information.
+
Misc. bug fixes
+
+

0.3a1 ¶

+
+
Initial release.
+
+

+ + +

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