[Distutils] setuptools in 2.5?

[Giovanni Bajo]

Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> I do think it's quite possible that quite a lot of setuptools could
> reasonably be backported to the distutils, including some of its
> command conveniences (aliases, configuration-saving, distribution
> rotation, etc.), utility functions (e.g. find_packages), and so on.
> The parts that are both stable and not specific to eggs, in other
> words, as these are less likely to be controversial.  :)


That'd be great to do. I think also of fixes to MANIFEST, understanding of
cvs/svn metafiles, etc.

Are you really planning to have those integrated into distutils for 2.5?

Giovanni Bajo