[MacPorts] #14912: py25-setuptools should include site.py

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#14912: py25-setuptools should include site.py
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  Reporter:  stefan at sun.ac.za                |       Owner:  stechert at macports.org           
      Type:  defect                          |      Status:  closed                          
  Priority:  Normal                          |   Milestone:  Port Bugs                       
 Component:  ports                           |     Version:  1.6.0                           
Resolution:  fixed                           |    Keywords:  python, easy_install, setuptools
      Port:  py-setuptools, py25-setuptools  |  
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Changes (by ryandesign at macports.org):

 * cc: blb at macports.org (added)
  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed
  * port:  py25-setuptools => py-setuptools, py25-setuptools


Comment:

 Ok, well that posting (by Phillip J. Eby, the principal author of
 setuptools) is pretty clear. In addition to what you quoted above, he
 says:

   I'm going to guess that it's missing because it was installed using
   an RPM or some other package put together by someone who had the
   hubris to assume that I would actually include files in setuptools
   that aren't *necessary* for its operation, and that it would
   therefore be "better" for them to remove it.  If this is the case,
   please educate them regarding the error of their ways -- it will be
   taken more seriously from an actual user bitten by it, than from me.

 I still don't know why Bryan changed the port in r16819 to no longer
 install site.py, nor why he claimed in the log message that the file was
 unnecessary, nor why it took two years after that change for anyone to
 report the problem to us. Maybe the file did not used to be required, but
 now is. In any case, given the software author's statement, I changed the
 ports to again install that file, as of r39983.

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