[Catalog-sig] PyPI and setuptools

[Stephen Thorne]

Hello,

One of my concerns with the recent pip dramas that have seen some excellent
and timely action from catalog-sig and others, is that 'setuptools' is
still widely distributed and used instead of distribute/pip.

Setuptools either needs to be sunset, notices put on pypi, warnings given
to its users, out of linux distros, or it has to upgraded to be feature
compatible with the security updates.

That's a strong statement I've made, but I feel strongly that something has
to be done. I would like to solicit opinions here before an action plan is
composed.

Stephen Thorne.
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