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python boostrap.py fails due to pre-installed setuptools causing version conflict #3220
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@dstufft What is your opinion on this issue? |
Not installing setuptools is likely to break a fair number of things. I'd be curious if this is a generic problem with |
This issue recently manifested itself here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-python/issues/274 The existence of an old setuptools egg in /Library on the default OS X image led to the issue because the egg .pth magic foiled our attempt to ensure that we were providing a modern setuptools for a dependency using PYTHONPATH. (Note, for the curious, that the order of |
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see: https://travis-ci.org/crate/crash/jobs/50315097
python bootstrap.py
downloads setuptools12.1
but12.0.5
is already installed, causing a version conflict.is there a way to use virtualenv without setuptools preinstalled, using the
--no-setuptools
option when creating it?right now I added
- pip uninstall setuptools -y
to the install section in the.travis.yml
that solves the problem, but is only a workaround
https://travis-ci.org/crate/crash/jobs/50320741
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