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+History
+=======
+
+0.6c9
+ * Fixed a missing files problem when using Windows source distributions on
+ non-Windows platforms, due to distutils not handling manifest file line
+ endings correctly.
+
+ * Updated Pyrex support to work with Pyrex 0.9.6 and higher.
+
+ * Minor changes for Jython compatibility, including skipping tests that can't
+ work on Jython.
+
+ * Fixed not installing eggs in ``install_requires`` if they were also used for
+ ``setup_requires`` or ``tests_require``.
+
+ * Fixed not fetching eggs in ``install_requires`` when running tests.
+
+ * Allow ``ez_setup.use_setuptools()`` to upgrade existing setuptools
+ installations when called from a standalone ``setup.py``.
+
+ * Added a warning if a namespace package is declared, but its parent package
+ is not also declared as a namespace.
+
+ * Support Subversion 1.5
+
+ * Removed use of deprecated ``md5`` module if ``hashlib`` is available
+
+ * Fixed ``bdist_wininst upload`` trying to upload the ``.exe`` twice
+
+ * Fixed ``bdist_egg`` putting a ``native_libs.txt`` in the source package's
+ ``.egg-info``, when it should only be in the built egg's ``EGG-INFO``.
+
+ * Ensure that _full_name is set on all shared libs before extensions are
+ checked for shared lib usage. (Fixes a bug in the experimental shared
+ library build support.)
+
+ * Fix to allow unpacked eggs containing native libraries to fail more
+ gracefully under Google App Engine (with an ``ImportError`` loading the
+ C-based module, instead of getting a ``NameError``).
+
+0.6c7
+ * Fixed ``distutils.filelist.findall()`` crashing on broken symlinks, and
+ ``egg_info`` command failing on new, uncommitted SVN directories.
+
+ * Fix import problems with nested namespace packages installed via
+ ``--root`` or ``--single-version-externally-managed``, due to the
+ parent package not having the child package as an attribute.
+
+0.6c6
+ * Added ``--egg-path`` option to ``develop`` command, allowing you to force
+ ``.egg-link`` files to use relative paths (allowing them to be shared across
+ platforms on a networked drive).
+
+ * Fix not building binary RPMs correctly.
+
+ * Fix "eggsecutables" (such as setuptools' own egg) only being runnable with
+ bash-compatible shells.
+
+ * Fix ``#!`` parsing problems in Windows ``.exe`` script wrappers, when there
+ was whitespace inside a quoted argument or at the end of the ``#!`` line
+ (a regression introduced in 0.6c4).
+
+ * Fix ``test`` command possibly failing if an older version of the project
+ being tested was installed on ``sys.path`` ahead of the test source
+ directory.
+
+ * Fix ``find_packages()`` treating ``ez_setup`` and directories with ``.`` in
+ their names as packages.
+
+0.6c5
+ * Fix uploaded ``bdist_rpm`` packages being described as ``bdist_egg``
+ packages under Python versions less than 2.5.
+
+ * Fix uploaded ``bdist_wininst`` packages being described as suitable for
+ "any" version by Python 2.5, even if a ``--target-version`` was specified.
+
+0.6c4
+ * Overhauled Windows script wrapping to support ``bdist_wininst`` better.
+ Scripts installed with ``bdist_wininst`` will always use ``#!python.exe`` or
+ ``#!pythonw.exe`` as the executable name (even when built on non-Windows
+ platforms!), and the wrappers will look for the executable in the script's
+ parent directory (which should find the right version of Python).
+
+ * Fix ``upload`` command not uploading files built by ``bdist_rpm`` or
+ ``bdist_wininst`` under Python 2.3 and 2.4.
+
+ * Add support for "eggsecutable" headers: a ``#!/bin/sh`` script that is
+ prepended to an ``.egg`` file to allow it to be run as a script on Unix-ish
+ platforms. (This is mainly so that setuptools itself can have a single-file
+ installer on Unix, without doing multiple downloads, dealing with firewalls,
+ etc.)
+
+ * Fix problem with empty revision numbers in Subversion 1.4 ``entries`` files
+
+ * Use cross-platform relative paths in ``easy-install.pth`` when doing
+ ``develop`` and the source directory is a subdirectory of the installation
+ target directory.
+
+ * Fix a problem installing eggs with a system packaging tool if the project
+ contained an implicit namespace package; for example if the ``setup()``
+ listed a namespace package ``foo.bar`` without explicitly listing ``foo``
+ as a namespace package.
+
+0.6c3
+ * Fixed breakages caused by Subversion 1.4's new "working copy" format
+
+0.6c2
+ * The ``ez_setup`` module displays the conflicting version of setuptools (and
+ its installation location) when a script requests a version that's not
+ available.
+
+ * Running ``setup.py develop`` on a setuptools-using project will now install
+ setuptools if needed, instead of only downloading the egg.
+
+0.6c1
+ * Fixed ``AttributeError`` when trying to download a ``setup_requires``
+ dependency when a distribution lacks a ``dependency_links`` setting.
+
+ * Made ``zip-safe`` and ``not-zip-safe`` flag files contain a single byte, so
+ as to play better with packaging tools that complain about zero-length
+ files.
+
+ * Made ``setup.py develop`` respect the ``--no-deps`` option, which it
+ previously was ignoring.
+
+ * Support ``extra_path`` option to ``setup()`` when ``install`` is run in
+ backward-compatibility mode.
+
+ * Source distributions now always include a ``setup.cfg`` file that explicitly
+ sets ``egg_info`` options such that they produce an identical version number
+ to the source distribution's version number. (Previously, the default
+ version number could be different due to the use of ``--tag-date``, or if
+ the version was overridden on the command line that built the source
+ distribution.)
+
+0.6b4
+ * Fix ``register`` not obeying name/version set by ``egg_info`` command, if
+ ``egg_info`` wasn't explicitly run first on the same command line.
+
+ * Added ``--no-date`` and ``--no-svn-revision`` options to ``egg_info``
+ command, to allow suppressing tags configured in ``setup.cfg``.
+
+ * Fixed redundant warnings about missing ``README`` file(s); it should now
+ appear only if you are actually a source distribution.
+
+0.6b3
+ * Fix ``bdist_egg`` not including files in subdirectories of ``.egg-info``.
+
+ * Allow ``.py`` files found by the ``include_package_data`` option to be
+ automatically included. Remove duplicate data file matches if both
+ ``include_package_data`` and ``package_data`` are used to refer to the same
+ files.
+
+0.6b1
+ * Strip ``module`` from the end of compiled extension modules when computing
+ the name of a ``.py`` loader/wrapper. (Python's import machinery ignores
+ this suffix when searching for an extension module.)
+
+0.6a11
+ * Added ``test_loader`` keyword to support custom test loaders
+
+ * Added ``setuptools.file_finders`` entry point group to allow implementing
+ revision control plugins.
+
+ * Added ``--identity`` option to ``upload`` command.
+
+ * Added ``dependency_links`` to allow specifying URLs for ``--find-links``.
+
+ * Enhanced test loader to scan packages as well as modules, and call
+ ``additional_tests()`` if present to get non-unittest tests.
+
+ * Support namespace packages in conjunction with system packagers, by omitting
+ the installation of any ``__init__.py`` files for namespace packages, and
+ adding a special ``.pth`` file to create a working package in
+ ``sys.modules``.
+
+ * Made ``--single-version-externally-managed`` automatic when ``--root`` is
+ used, so that most system packagers won't require special support for
+ setuptools.
+
+ * Fixed ``setup_requires``, ``tests_require``, etc. not using ``setup.cfg`` or
+ other configuration files for their option defaults when installing, and
+ also made the install use ``--multi-version`` mode so that the project
+ directory doesn't need to support .pth files.
+
+ * ``MANIFEST.in`` is now forcibly closed when any errors occur while reading
+ it. Previously, the file could be left open and the actual error would be
+ masked by problems trying to remove the open file on Windows systems.
+
+0.6a10
+ * Fixed the ``develop`` command ignoring ``--find-links``.
+
+0.6a9
+ * The ``sdist`` command no longer uses the traditional ``MANIFEST`` file to
+ create source distributions. ``MANIFEST.in`` is still read and processed,
+ as are the standard defaults and pruning. But the manifest is built inside
+ the project's ``.egg-info`` directory as ``SOURCES.txt``, and it is rebuilt
+ every time the ``egg_info`` command is run.
+
+ * Added the ``include_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
+ automatically include any package data listed in revision control or
+ ``MANIFEST.in``
+
+ * Added the ``exclude_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
+ trim back files included via the ``package_data`` and
+ ``include_package_data`` options.
+
+ * Fixed ``--tag-svn-revision`` not working when run from a source
+ distribution.
+
+ * Added warning for namespace packages with missing ``declare_namespace()``
+
+ * Added ``tests_require`` keyword to ``setup()``, so that e.g. packages
+ requiring ``nose`` to run unit tests can make this dependency optional
+ unless the ``test`` command is run.
+
+ * Made all commands that use ``easy_install`` respect its configuration
+ options, as this was causing some problems with ``setup.py install``.
+
+ * Added an ``unpack_directory()`` driver to ``setuptools.archive_util``, so
+ that you can process a directory tree through a processing filter as if it
+ were a zipfile or tarfile.
+
+ * Added an internal ``install_egg_info`` command to use as part of old-style
+ ``install`` operations, that installs an ``.egg-info`` directory with the
+ package.
+
+ * Added a ``--single-version-externally-managed`` option to the ``install``
+ command so that you can more easily wrap a "flat" egg in a system package.
+
+ * Enhanced ``bdist_rpm`` so that it installs single-version eggs that
+ don't rely on a ``.pth`` file. The ``--no-egg`` option has been removed,
+ since all RPMs are now built in a more backwards-compatible format.
+
+ * Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from ``bdist_wininst``
+ format. Running ``bdist_wininst`` on a setuptools-based package wraps the
+ egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata
+ and entry-point wrapper scripts), and ``easy_install`` can turn the .exe
+ back into an ``.egg`` file or directory and install it as such.
+
+
+0.6a8
+ * Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
+ with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
+
+ * Made ``develop`` command accept all the same options as ``easy_install``,
+ and use the ``easy_install`` command's configuration settings as defaults.
+
+ * Made ``egg_info --tag-svn-revision`` fall back to extracting the revision
+ number from ``PKG-INFO`` in case it is being run on a source distribution of
+ a snapshot taken from a Subversion-based project.
+
+ * Automatically detect ``.dll``, ``.so`` and ``.dylib`` files that are being
+ installed as data, adding them to ``native_libs.txt`` automatically.
+
+ * Fixed some problems with fresh checkouts of projects that don't include
+ ``.egg-info/PKG-INFO`` under revision control and put the project's source
+ code directly in the project directory. If such a package had any
+ requirements that get processed before the ``egg_info`` command can be run,
+ the setup scripts would fail with a "Missing 'Version:' header and/or
+ PKG-INFO file" error, because the egg runtime interpreted the unbuilt
+ metadata in a directory on ``sys.path`` (i.e. the current directory) as
+ being a corrupted egg. Setuptools now monkeypatches the distribution
+ metadata cache to pretend that the egg has valid version information, until
+ it has a chance to make it actually be so (via the ``egg_info`` command).
+
+0.6a5
+ * Fixed missing gui/cli .exe files in distribution. Fixed bugs in tests.
+
+0.6a3
+ * Added ``gui_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing GUI scripts
+ on Windows and other platforms. (The special handling is only for Windows;
+ other platforms are treated the same as for ``console_scripts``.)
+
+0.6a2
+ * Added ``console_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing scripts
+ without the need to create separate script files. On Windows, console
+ scripts get an ``.exe`` wrapper so you can just type their name. On other
+ platforms, the scripts are written without a file extension.
+
+0.6a1
+ * Added support for building "old-style" RPMs that don't install an egg for
+ the target package, using a ``--no-egg`` option.
+
+ * The ``build_ext`` command now works better when using the ``--inplace``
+ option and multiple Python versions. It now makes sure that all extensions
+ match the current Python version, even if newer copies were built for a
+ different Python version.
+
+ * The ``upload`` command no longer attaches an extra ``.zip`` when uploading
+ eggs, as PyPI now supports egg uploads without trickery.
+
+ * The ``ez_setup`` script/module now displays a warning before downloading
+ the setuptools egg, and attempts to check the downloaded egg against an
+ internal MD5 checksum table.
+
+ * Fixed the ``--tag-svn-revision`` option of ``egg_info`` not finding the
+ latest revision number; it was using the revision number of the directory
+ containing ``setup.py``, not the highest revision number in the project.
+
+ * Added ``eager_resources`` setup argument
+
+ * The ``sdist`` command now recognizes Subversion "deleted file" entries and
+ does not include them in source distributions.
+
+ * ``setuptools`` now embeds itself more thoroughly into the distutils, so that
+ other distutils extensions (e.g. py2exe, py2app) will subclass setuptools'
+ versions of things, rather than the native distutils ones.
+
+ * Added ``entry_points`` and ``setup_requires`` arguments to ``setup()``;
+ ``setup_requires`` allows you to automatically find and download packages
+ that are needed in order to *build* your project (as opposed to running it).
+
+ * ``setuptools`` now finds its commands, ``setup()`` argument validators, and
+ metadata writers using entry points, so that they can be extended by
+ third-party packages. See `Creating distutils Extensions`_ above for more
+ details.
+
+ * The vestigial ``depends`` command has been removed. It was never finished
+ or documented, and never would have worked without EasyInstall - which it
+ pre-dated and was never compatible with.
+
+0.5a12
+ * The zip-safety scanner now checks for modules that might be used with
+ ``python -m``, and marks them as unsafe for zipping, since Python 2.4 can't
+ handle ``-m`` on zipped modules.
+
+0.5a11
+ * Fix breakage of the "develop" command that was caused by the addition of
+ ``--always-unzip`` to the ``easy_install`` command.
+
+0.5a9
+ * Include ``svn:externals`` directories in source distributions as well as
+ normal subversion-controlled files and directories.
+
+ * Added ``exclude=patternlist`` option to ``setuptools.find_packages()``
+
+ * Changed --tag-svn-revision to include an "r" in front of the revision number
+ for better readability.
+
+ * Added ability to build eggs without including source files (except for any
+ scripts, of course), using the ``--exclude-source-files`` option to
+ ``bdist_egg``.
+
+ * ``setup.py install`` now automatically detects when an "unmanaged" package
+ or module is going to be on ``sys.path`` ahead of a package being installed,
+ thereby preventing the newer version from being imported. If this occurs,
+ a warning message is output to ``sys.stderr``, but installation proceeds
+ anyway. The warning message informs the user what files or directories
+ need deleting, and advises them they can also use EasyInstall (with the
+ ``--delete-conflicting`` option) to do it automatically.
+
+ * The ``egg_info`` command now adds a ``top_level.txt`` file to the metadata
+ directory that lists all top-level modules and packages in the distribution.
+ This is used by the ``easy_install`` command to find possibly-conflicting
+ "unmanaged" packages when installing the distribution.
+
+ * Added ``zip_safe`` and ``namespace_packages`` arguments to ``setup()``.
+ Added package analysis to determine zip-safety if the ``zip_safe`` flag
+ is not given, and advise the author regarding what code might need changing.
+
+ * Fixed the swapped ``-d`` and ``-b`` options of ``bdist_egg``.
+
+0.5a8
+ * The "egg_info" command now always sets the distribution metadata to "safe"
+ forms of the distribution name and version, so that distribution files will
+ be generated with parseable names (i.e., ones that don't include '-' in the
+ name or version). Also, this means that if you use the various ``--tag``
+ options of "egg_info", any distributions generated will use the tags in the
+ version, not just egg distributions.
+
+ * Added support for defining command aliases in distutils configuration files,
+ under the "[aliases]" section. To prevent recursion and to allow aliases to
+ call the command of the same name, a given alias can be expanded only once
+ per command-line invocation. You can define new aliases with the "alias"
+ command, either for the local, global, or per-user configuration.
+
+ * Added "rotate" command to delete old distribution files, given a set of
+ patterns to match and the number of files to keep. (Keeps the most
+ recently-modified distribution files matching each pattern.)
+
+ * Added "saveopts" command that saves all command-line options for the current
+ invocation to the local, global, or per-user configuration file. Useful for
+ setting defaults without having to hand-edit a configuration file.
+
+ * Added a "setopt" command that sets a single option in a specified distutils
+ configuration file.
+
+0.5a7
+ * Added "upload" support for egg and source distributions, including a bug
+ fix for "upload" and a temporary workaround for lack of .egg support in
+ PyPI.
+
+0.5a6
+ * Beefed up the "sdist" command so that if you don't have a MANIFEST.in, it
+ will include all files under revision control (CVS or Subversion) in the
+ current directory, and it will regenerate the list every time you create a
+ source distribution, not just when you tell it to. This should make the
+ default "do what you mean" more often than the distutils' default behavior
+ did, while still retaining the old behavior in the presence of MANIFEST.in.
+
+ * Fixed the "develop" command always updating .pth files, even if you
+ specified ``-n`` or ``--dry-run``.
+
+ * Slightly changed the format of the generated version when you use
+ ``--tag-build`` on the "egg_info" command, so that you can make tagged
+ revisions compare *lower* than the version specified in setup.py (e.g. by
+ using ``--tag-build=dev``).
+
+0.5a5
+ * Added ``develop`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages. This command
+ installs an ``.egg-link`` pointing to the package's source directory, and
+ script wrappers that ``execfile()`` the source versions of the package's
+ scripts. This lets you put your development checkout(s) on sys.path without
+ having to actually install them. (To uninstall the link, use
+ use ``setup.py develop --uninstall``.)
+
+ * Added ``egg_info`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages. This command
+ just creates or updates the "projectname.egg-info" directory, without
+ building an egg. (It's used by the ``bdist_egg``, ``test``, and ``develop``
+ commands.)
+
+ * Enhanced the ``test`` command so that it doesn't install the package, but
+ instead builds any C extensions in-place, updates the ``.egg-info``
+ metadata, adds the source directory to ``sys.path``, and runs the tests
+ directly on the source. This avoids an "unmanaged" installation of the
+ package to ``site-packages`` or elsewhere.
+
+ * Made ``easy_install`` a standard ``setuptools`` command, moving it from
+ the ``easy_install`` module to ``setuptools.command.easy_install``. Note
+ that if you were importing or extending it, you must now change your imports
+ accordingly. ``easy_install.py`` is still installed as a script, but not as
+ a module.
+
+0.5a4
+ * Setup scripts using setuptools can now list their dependencies directly in
+ the setup.py file, without having to manually create a ``depends.txt`` file.
+ The ``install_requires`` and ``extras_require`` arguments to ``setup()``
+ are used to create a dependencies file automatically. If you are manually
+ creating ``depends.txt`` right now, please switch to using these setup
+ arguments as soon as practical, because ``depends.txt`` support will be
+ removed in the 0.6 release cycle. For documentation on the new arguments,
+ see the ``setuptools.dist.Distribution`` class.
+
+ * Setup scripts using setuptools now always install using ``easy_install``
+ internally, for ease of uninstallation and upgrading.
+
+0.5a1
+ * Added support for "self-installation" bootstrapping. Packages can now
+ include ``ez_setup.py`` in their source distribution, and add the following
+ to their ``setup.py``, in order to automatically bootstrap installation of
+ setuptools as part of their setup process::
+
+ from ez_setup import use_setuptools
+ use_setuptools()
+
+ from setuptools import setup
+ # etc...
+
+0.4a2
+ * Added ``ez_setup.py`` installer/bootstrap script to make initial setuptools
+ installation easier, and to allow distributions using setuptools to avoid
+ having to include setuptools in their source distribution.
+
+ * All downloads are now managed by the ``PackageIndex`` class (which is now
+ subclassable and replaceable), so that embedders can more easily override
+ download logic, give download progress reports, etc. The class has also
+ been moved to the new ``setuptools.package_index`` module.
+
+ * The ``Installer`` class no longer handles downloading, manages a temporary
+ directory, or tracks the ``zip_ok`` option. Downloading is now handled
+ by ``PackageIndex``, and ``Installer`` has become an ``easy_install``
+ command class based on ``setuptools.Command``.
+
+ * There is a new ``setuptools.sandbox.run_setup()`` API to invoke a setup
+ script in a directory sandbox, and a new ``setuptools.archive_util`` module
+ with an ``unpack_archive()`` API. These were split out of EasyInstall to
+ allow reuse by other tools and applications.
+
+ * ``setuptools.Command`` now supports reinitializing commands using keyword
+ arguments to set/reset options. Also, ``Command`` subclasses can now set
+ their ``command_consumes_arguments`` attribute to ``True`` in order to
+ receive an ``args`` option containing the rest of the command line.
+
+0.3a2
+ * Added new options to ``bdist_egg`` to allow tagging the egg's version number
+ with a subversion revision number, the current date, or an explicit tag
+ value. Run ``setup.py bdist_egg --help`` to get more information.
+
+ * Misc. bug fixes
+
+0.3a1
+ * Initial release.
+
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