#14912: py25-setuptools should include site.py ---------------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: stefan@sun.ac.za | Owner: stechert@macports.org Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: python, easy_install, setuptools Port: py-setuptools, py25-setuptools | ---------------------------------------------+------------------------------ Changes (by ryandesign@macports.org): * cc: blb@macports.org (added) * status: new => closed * resolution: => fixed * port: py25-setuptools => py-setuptools, py25-setuptools Comment: Ok, well that posting (by Phillip J. Eby, the principal author of setuptools) is pretty clear. In addition to what you quoted above, he says: I'm going to guess that it's missing because it was installed using an RPM or some other package put together by someone who had the hubris to assume that I would actually include files in setuptools that aren't *necessary* for its operation, and that it would therefore be "better" for them to remove it. If this is the case, please educate them regarding the error of their ways -- it will be taken more seriously from an actual user bitten by it, than from me. I still don't know why Bryan changed the port in r16819 to no longer install site.py, nor why he claimed in the log message that the file was unnecessary, nor why it took two years after that change for anyone to report the problem to us. Maybe the file did not used to be required, but now is. In any case, given the software author's statement, I changed the ports to again install that file, as of r39983. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/14912#comment:9> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS