[Zope3-dev] distutils.core?

[holger krekel]

Jan Johansson wrote:
> 
> Trying to help out with i18n for zope 3, i did a checkout, and ht ebelow happend.
> 
> Debian/Woody system with the following pythons installed
> 
> root@statler:/var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/Zope3# dpkg -l | grep python
> ii  python         2.1.3-3        An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
> ii  python-mysqldb 0.9.1-3        A Python interface for MySQL
> ii  python2.1      2.1.3-3        An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
> ii  python2.1-mysq 0.9.1-3        A Python interface for MySQL
> ii  python2.2      2.2.1-5        An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
> ...
>     from distutils.core import setup, Extension
> ImportError: No module named distutils.core

for some weird reason debian's python doesn't come with distutils. My solution
was to install python2.2 from python.org.

    holger