[lxml-dev] lxml 1.3.1 setup.py bug

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Holger,

jholg at gmx.de wrote:
> the setup.py script in 1.3.1 seems to try to remove the dependency on
> setuptools (which is a very good thing imho!) but fails:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 7, in ? except
> pkg_resources.VersionConflict, e: NameError: name 'pkg_resources' is not
> defined 1 lb54320 at adevp02 .../lxml-1.3 $
> 
> I must admit I don't fully undestand the intention of the relevant code
> portion, as it raises ImportError even if pkg_resources import and version
> check runs smoothly; maybe this is the intended behaviour?

Ah, great. That was plain debug code. :)

Thanks, I just re-released the sources. Could you check if it works now?


> Oh, btw I couldn't find a 1.3.1 tag in the repository when trying to check
> out 1.3.1.

Luckily, yes. I'll tag it with the fix applied. :)

Stefan