Since there is a separate issue 41 for supporting postinstall, and the pywin32
bug is still open, I'm closing this.

I added a link to this issue onto
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/wiki/bug_listing .  This issue is still a
problem for the Tahoe-LAFS project as documented on
http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/142 # pywin32 can't be installed with
setuptools

I filed issue41 for addressing the missing post-install mechanism.

There are actually two problems:

1) easy_install does not run pywin32_postinstall.py. It looks like there is no
mechanism to do this.

2) pywin32_postinstall.py can not be run manually when using eggs since it does
not use pkg_resources.

The second problem is fixed on the pywin32 site by patch 2092722
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2092722&group_id=78018&atid=551956>.

Here is the ticket on the allmydata.org issue tracker for this issue:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/142 # pywin32 can't be installed with
setuptools

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1799934&group_id=78018&atid=551954

Tells how {{{easy_install pywin32}}} fails.  I believe that this has been fixed
in setuptools trunk by PJE:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-July/007823.html

but that fix (if it is a fix) isn't in a released version of setuptools yet.

I'm making the status of this ticket be "in-progress" in order to indicate that
a fix has been created but not yet released.