paster errors after installing distribute 0.6.10

Question

Been working on a Plone site for the last few weeks, it's the first time I've worked on one using buildout for recipes and paster for template generation, and it's been a learning curve.

two days ago, everything was working fine.

Yesterday, I started working from my known good source and used paster to generate boilerplate for a new archetype, worked fine. I edited the buildout (as I've done several times before) to account for the new item, ran buildout, and got a hung build (kept repeating that it was generating distribute)

Googling indicated that this was due to a version mismatch, and that I should upgrade to the latest version of distribute, so I did so (to 0.6.10)

Now, that error is gone, but so is any ability to do paster. Even running paster create --list-templates kicks out the error:

F:\Plone\src>paster create --list-templates

Traceback (most recent call last): File "F:\Plone\Python\Scripts\paster-script.py", line 5, in ? from pkg_resources import load_entry_point ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

Hope someone can help, b/c I'm pretty stalled right now.

Answer 1

Turns out, the problem had to do with the new version of distribute apparently doesn't squash the old version correctly. I had to manually rename the old egg, delete teh new one, then re-install the new one.

Answer 2

You're spot on to delete the distribute egg and reinstall.

If your easy_install produces a similar issue (mine did after deleting my setuptools egg) you can manually reinstall distribute with:

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ python distribute_setup.py

Answer 3

Maybe this helps?

New distribute release: use new zc.buildout to prevent recursion

I don't know that much about that particular part of the stack, but might be related?