[Biopython-dev] setuptools breaking biopython-1.62b installation

[Peter Cock]

On Friday, July 26, 2013 Peter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013  Peter Cock wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 Brad Chapman wrote:
>>>
>>> Peter and Michiel;
>>>
>>>>> Do we actually need setuptools?
>>>>> Looking at setup.py, it seems that distutils is sufficient for our
>>>>> needs.
>>>>> If so, let's remove the dependency on setuptools.
>>>
>>> We used setuptools/distribute to install dependencies, although
>>> practically this doesn't work well since pip doesn't finish NumPy
>>> installation before installing Biopython. So I'm fine with taking it out
>>> if you want to simplify the setup and avoid the extra dependency.
>>
>> Sounds like a plan - but we should all test this change, especially
>> users of PIP, easy_install, virtual env etc.
>>
>
> So who's going to do the commit - Brad or Michiel?
>
> Peter
>

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Brad, can you do it?
> Best,
> -Michiel.

I've done it:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/f8e51906709d0c85be9f2b921eb3f68eed5524f9

This needs some more testing now - particularly with the
non-standard install options like pip, easy_install, etc.

Peter