On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:54 PM, PJ Eby
Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the setuptools code base. He has volunteered to take over maintenance of setuptools, and I welcome his assistance. I appreciate the contributions made by the distribute maintainers over the years, and am glad to have Jason's help in getting those contributions into setuptools as well. Continuing to keep the code bases separate isn't helping anybody, and as setuptools moves once again into active development to deal with the upcoming shifts in the Python-wide packaging infrastructure (the new PEPs, formats, SSL, TUF, etc.), it makes sense to combine efforts.
That's awesome news. Thanks Phillip and Jason! Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm