From: Youness Alaoui <kakaroto@kakaroto.homelinux.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:51:10 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Use an alternative method to check for wxPython if distutils is not available
X-Git-Tag: lulzbot-18.01~2
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd0404748e21259c8f21d9c98fb32283fb22f3ce;p=cura.git

Use an alternative method to check for wxPython if distutils is not available
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diff --git a/Cura/gui/app.py b/Cura/gui/app.py
index 4aade333..d3fa61a9 100644
--- a/Cura/gui/app.py
+++ b/Cura/gui/app.py
@@ -114,14 +114,23 @@ class CuraApp(wx.App):
 		from Cura.util import profile
 		from Cura.util import resources
 		from Cura.util import version
-		from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 		resources.setupLocalization(profile.getPreference('language'))  # it's important to set up localization at very beginning to install _
 
-		if LooseVersion(wx.__version__) < LooseVersion('3.0'):
-			wx.MessageBox(_("This version of Cura requires WxPython version 3.0 or newer.\nYour current WxPython version is %s.") % wx.__version__,
-						  _("WxPython version is too old"), wx.OK | wx.ICON_ERROR)
-			return
+		try:
+			from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+
+			if LooseVersion(wx.__version__) < LooseVersion('3.0'):
+				wx.MessageBox(_("This version of Cura requires WxPython version 3.0 or newer.\nYour current WxPython version is %s.") % wx.__version__,
+							  _("WxPython version is too old"), wx.OK | wx.ICON_ERROR)
+				return
+		except:
+			# distutils not found.. it can happen!
+			# Only check the first 3 characters of the version string instead
+			if float(wx.__version__[0:3]) < 3.0:
+				wx.MessageBox(_("This version of Cura requires WxPython version 3.0 or newer.\nYour current WxPython version is %s.") % wx.__version__,
+							  _("WxPython version is too old"), wx.OK | wx.ICON_ERROR)
+				return
 
 		#If we do not have preferences yet, try to load it from a previous Cura install
 		if profile.getMachineSetting('machine_type') == 'unknown':