[BangPypers] setuptools and distutils confusion

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Gopalakrishnan Subramani <gopalakrishnan.subramani at gmail.com> writes:

> setuptools is for the users who use a package produced by someone.
> disutils is for users who produce the package.

Not really. distutils is the packaging system provided by the standard
library. 

setuptools is an extension of distutils which provides automatic
fetching from PyPI etc. It's installer is easy_install.

distribute is a fork of setuptools that was created because setuptools
was stagnating. 

pip is a replacement for easy_install that's standalone. 

distutils2 is a completel rewrite and cleanup of the above mess. 


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