install error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized

[kijoshua]

I got this when running "pip install pycortex":

Downloading/unpacking pycortex
  Downloading pycortex-0.1.1.tar.gz (38.9MB): 38.9MB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_Josh/pycortex/setup.py) egg_info for package pycortex

Installing collected packages: pycortex
  Running setup.py install for pycortex
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
       or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
       or: -c --help-commands
       or: -c cmd --help

    error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized
    Complete output from command /home/Josh/anaconda/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_Josh/pycortex/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-8qryND-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]

   or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]

   or: -c --help-commands

   or: -c cmd --help



error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized

I'm using the Anaconda Python distribution. I tried updating setuptools and distribute, it didn't work. But using "pip install pycortex --egg" did complete successfully.

[zsh696]

I also met this issue. I'm using the Anaconda Python distribution. But using "pip install pycortex --egg" did complete successfully.

[choldgraf]

I'm getting this issue as well. Reproduced this error on both OSX and on CentOS, both with anaconda installed.

[chrisgorgo]

Weirdly enough updating setuptools does not help with this bug.

[marklescroart]

As our updated documentation says, the pip install is currently broken. Sorry about that. Will update here if/when we fix it.

[choldgraf]

Why not just remove the pip install if it doesn't work and there isn't an immediate plan to update?