Re: [Distutils] Q about best practices now (or near future)

As of right now the User's Guide doesn't mention using setuptools for building (beyond an empty header listing) and goes with the old distutils setup.py approach. It also words things like you don't know how to really use Python and are starting a project entirely from scratch.

Although most of the text from the original Hitchhiker Guide is gone at this point (since the "fork" a few months back), the "Packaging Tutorial" as it is, is mostly still carryover from that. Don't take it is intentional new writing.