Comment 9 for bug 390542
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| Matt Nordhoff (mnordhoff) wrote Re: [Bug 390542] Re: loggerhead doesn't work with the bzr standalone win32 installer; should be included in it | #9 |
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(Get the code!)
Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> ...
> File "pkg_resources.
> DistributionNot
>
> IIUC this error is a clear sign that some parts either of loggerhead or
> third-party library requires setuptools to work correctly. AFAIK,
> py2exed application (bzr.exe) can't work with setuptools and eggs
> properly. So this is dead end.
I don't know the details, but Loggerhead isn't compatible with old
versions of Paste and PasteDeploy, so it uses setuptools's pkg_resources
to make sure they're new enough. (Paste doesn't have many __version__
attributes, so that seems to be the best way to do it.)
It also uses pkg_resources for reporting the version numbers of its
dependencies and accessing some files included in the distribution.
Patches welcome. :-D I'd be happy to lose that dependency, but I don't
know how to do it.
As it is, it might be possible for the installer to use a patched
version of Loggerhead that removes the dependency. It would be easy to
do, as long as pkg_resources.