From 40a682476dab9e2e50b83b803457e78d478dbf0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ionel Cristian Maries <contact@ionelmc.ro>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:44:27 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Improve version test (use pkg_resources to compare versions).
 Also log failures to stderr.

--HG--
branch : pytest-2.7
---
 setup.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 038e5f633..e7d74c793 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ def get_version():
 def has_newish_setuptools():
     try:
         import setuptools
-        return tuple(int(i) for i in str(setuptools.__version__).split('.')) > (0, 7)
-    except Exception:
+        import pkg_resources
+        return pkg_resources.parse_version(setuptools.__version__) >= pkg_resources.parse_version('0.7')
+    except Exception as exc:
+        sys.stderr.write("Could not test setuptool's version: %s\n" % exc)
         return False