Bugzilla Bug 108227

Hi!  
  
Please find attached setuptools-0.6_alpha5.ebuild. 
 
setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils (for Python 
2.3 and up) that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python 
packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. 
 
Packages built and distributed using setuptools look to the user like ordinary 
Python packages based on the distutils. Your users don't need to install or 
even know about setuptools in order to use them, and you don't have to include 
the entire setuptools package in your distributions. By including just a 
single bootstrap module (a 7K .py file), your package will automatically 
download and install setuptools if the user is building your package from 
source and doesn't have a suitable version already installed. 
  
I suggest dev-python/setuptools. 
  
Geoff

Created an attachment (id=69960) [edit]
setuptools-0.6_alpha5.ebuild

- the src_unpack function should be superfluous.

Created an attachment (id=70014) [edit]
setuptools-0.6_alpha5.ebuild with src_unpack() removed

It's broken: it installs under 

/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a5-py2.3.egg/

and easy_install doesn't works, since pkg_resources.py is there and it is not in
PYTHONPATH

Created an attachment (id=70419) [edit]
setuptools-0.6_alpha5.ebuild with PYTHONPATH fixed

This version creates a .pth file in /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages to add the
setuptools .egg directory to the PYTHONPATH.

This is a similar approach to what dev-python/numeric does, so there is a
precedent.

setuptools has to be installed into a .egg directory in site-packages because
it's inherent to how it works.

Added to CVS. Thanks Geoffry and Thomas. I couldn't get easy_install to work
with amd64 due to a bug in Python's ziplib unless using python-2.4.2, so I upped
the deps for now.