Distribute 0.6 released
Tarek Ziadé
I am pleased to announce the release of Distribute 0.6.
Distribute is a friendly fork of the Setuptools project.
You can get more info, download it and install it using the
instructions from its PyPI page :
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute
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CHANGES (compared to setuptools 0.6c9) :
setuptools
* Packages required at build time where not fully present at
install time. This closes
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/12.
* Protected against failures in tarfile extraction. This closes
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/10.
* Made Jython api_tests.txt doctest compatible. This closes
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/7.
* sandbox.py replaced builtin type file with builtin function
open. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/6.
* Immediately close all file handles. This closes
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
* Added compatibility with Subversion 1.6. This references
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/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 http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/5.
* Fixed a SandboxViolation for mkdir that could occur in certain
cases. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/13.
* Allow to find_on_path on systems with tight permissions to fail
gracefully. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/9.
* Corrected inconsistency between documentation and code of
add_entry. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/8.
* Immediately close all file handles. This closes
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
easy_install
* Immediately close all file handles. This closes
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3.
Cheers
Tarek
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