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

[Peter Cock]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> 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