not entirely on-topic here, but is distutils still being in active use "in the wild" ?
-Sivan On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 February 2016 at 00:38, <dimv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Running python setup.py develop doesn't work, it gives me this error: > error: invalid command 'develop' > > This is presumably because your setup.py script uses distutils rather > than setuptools: distutils doesn't have the develop command. > > > Running pip install -e . does work. > > That's because pip "injects setuptools" so that when you import > distutils in your setup.py your actually importing a monkey-patched > setuptools. You may as well import setuptools in your setup.py but > either way the recommended invocation is "pip install -e .". > > -- > Oscar > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Sivan Greenberg Co founder & CTO Vitakka Consulting -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
