At 08:10 PM 11/30/2009 +0200, cool-RR wrote:

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

Unless there's some bug they've fixed in it that nobody has reported here or on the setuptools bug tracker, there isn't any. (And of course, if such a bug exists, I would certainly like to know about it.)