hooked the patching code into setup.py

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branch : distribute
extra : rebase_source : 8e77b3c98ea725103494ee55ec403dc967dbb3a6

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b9e419a7..c2788314 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 import sys
 scripts = []
 
+# if we are installing Distribute using "python setup.py install"
+# we need to get setuptools out of the way
+if 'install' in sys.argv[1:]:
+    from ez_setup import fake_setuptools
+    fake_setuptools()
+
 setup(
     name="distribute",
     version=VERSION,