systematic issue with PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST

[Nicola Vitale]

Hi,

> [2013/11/22 William Grzybowski <william88 at gmail.com>]
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Nicola Vitale <nivit at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> If so, in my opinion the cause may be this change to bsd.python.mk:
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=322046
>
> In my opinion its not really a cause, how else would you do that? We
> are dealing with packages, I don't see another way to install the
> packages if not manually poking with easy-install.pth.

Yes, of course. Or we can use easy_install command again...

> Sure, but the only way around that I see is manually creating the
> easy-install.pth, or figure out a way to tel setuptools to,

In fact, and why did you not add that file? Obviously we could create
a simple port as a run dependency of setuptools, that installs only
that file with a minimal content, so not having to worry about it when
you update setuptools.

-- 
Nicola Vitale