Use a hack to get numpy to install with easy_install (#81)

I couldn't find any other way; see the comments in the code or my discussion
at #81 for why this is necessary.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py b/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py
index a95fee76e..27606da4e 100644
--- a/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py
+++ b/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py
@@ -608,6 +608,15 @@ class Configuration(object):
     def get_distribution(self):
         import distutils.core
         dist = distutils.core._setup_distribution
+        # XXX Hack to get numpy installable with easy_install.
+        # The problem is easy_install runs it's own setup(), which
+        # sets up distutils.core._setup_distribution. However,
+        # when our setup() runs, that gets overwritten and lost.
+        # We can't use isinstance, as the DistributionWithoutHelpCommands
+        # class is local to a function in setuptools.command.easy_install
+        if dist is not None and \
+                repr(dist).find('DistributionWithoutHelpCommands') != -1:
+            return None
         return dist
 
     def _wildcard_get_subpackage(self, subpackage_name,