At 04:14 PM 7/15/2009 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:

Look - I really, really don't mind if people use setuptools. Honest. But I do mind if core python gets changed to support little bits of what setuptools does, adding complexity to deal with issues that setuptools handles, but without making it possible to avoid using setuptools.

I don't see how that's being proposed. Nothing in PEP 376 requires setuptools or any portion thereof, AFAICT.