python setup.py develop

Shouldn’t this work for django-extensions? python setup.py develop

It works in other projects, but when I run it with django-extensions I get the strangest error message: $ python setup.py develop usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] …] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 …] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'develop'

I’ve also looked at the contents of setup.py, and haven’t spotted anything unusual.

[MichaelBlume]

@filipefigcorreia: You can make this work locally, if you like. In setup.py replace the line

from distutils.core import setup

with

from setuptools import setup

That’s all you need.

[MichaelBlume]

@filipefigcorreia: no problem =)

distutils is part of Python, so everyone’s assumed to have it. setuptools is an optional install (though a pretty popular one) and gives some extra options. So it’s up to each project whether to require that its users install the optional package and thus get those options.

I think a good balance might be struck by

try:
    from setuptools import setup
except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup