From d94b0495341ee50de40046dae2d3e70158def1b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: elie <elie>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 20:26:18 +0000
Subject: playing with setuptools

---
 setup.py | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'setup.py')

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 36a9800..19eb815 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from distutils.core import setup
+import sys
+
+def howto_install_setuptools():
+    print """Error: You need setuptools Python package!
+
+It's very easy to install it, just type (as root on Linux):
+   wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
+   python ez_setup.py
+"""
+
+try:
+    from setuptools import setup
+except ImportError:
+    for arg in sys.argv:
+        if "egg" in arg:
+            howto_install_setuptools()
+            sys.exit(1)
+    from distutils.core import setup
 
 setup(name="pyasn1",
       version="0.0.5a",
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