April 20, 2009
5:04 p.m.
At 06:31 PM 4/20/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
Let me reformulate that:
Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run, test itself, etc.
Why do I need setuptools to do that? Why is not distutils enough?
Because distutils doesn't have an egg_info command, or SVN-based manifest building (for making sdists).