3 Jul
2010
3 Jul
'10
8:06 a.m.
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Greg Ewing
Éric Araujo wrote:
Distribute is a fork of Setupools, so it wants to be a drop-in replacement, i.e. to be used instead of setuptools with very few code changes.
But is there a technical reason why it *has* to be a drop-in replacement, as opposed to a different package with a different name?
This technical reason was already explained in this mailing list back then, many times. Maybe you could read back the relevant threads for more details.