2009/11/30 P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>
At 07:16 PM 11/30/2009 +0200, cool-RR wrote:
Well, that sort of sucks. And this is my motivation for bundling the `pkg_resources` from Distribute. The last thing I want is having my software fail for my users because of setuptools while I have Distribute installed locally and can't see the bug on my computer.

That's *really* unlikely.  Setuptools' runtime functionality (i.e., pkg_resources) has an extremely low bug count.  There have actually been more new pkg_resources bugs in Distribute's version of it (due to their changes) than there are outstanding reported bugs in the original pkg_resources.

Now I'm confused. If that's true, what reason is there to use Distribute's `pkg_resources` at all?

Ram.