Provide a means of bypassing setuptools when installing Cheetah

By running `CHEETAH_INSTALL_WITHOUT_SETUPTOOLS=1 python setup.py install`
you can revert to distutils functionality for your install process

Signed-off-by: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/SetupTools.py b/SetupTools.py
index d6d48dd..1fcaf4c 100644
--- a/SetupTools.py
+++ b/SetupTools.py
@@ -9,12 +9,11 @@ import string
 import traceback
 
 from distutils.core import setup
-try:
-    # use http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools if it's installed
-    # requires Py >=2.3
-    from setuptools import setup
-except ImportError:   
-    from distutils.core import setup
+if not os.getenv('CHEETAH_INSTALL_WITHOUT_SETUPTOOLS'):
+    try:
+        from setuptools import setup
+    except ImportError:   
+        from distutils.core import setup
 
 from distutils.core import Command
 from distutils.command.install_data import install_data