[Distutils] Some negative press for easy_install

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Andrew Straw wrote:

> This way, setup.py can be setuptools-aware without doing 'import
> setuptools', but the user would have to do:
> python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')"

Maybe we should get an easy_setup that does this?  easy_install is  
fine if you want to install, but not if you want to bdist_egg or use  
any of the other setuptools-specific features.

-bob