At 12:53 AM 7/2/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:

This is issue 142 on bitbucket (distribute fork on Tarek account), and there was a similar bug on setuptools issue tracker (submitted by Zooko as well), but cannot find it ATM.

http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue17 A fix was released in setuptools more than 8 months ago.