[Distutils] Puzzling easy_install behavior

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:41 AM 6/22/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:

>On Jun 22, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>"nest" is supposed to be part of setuptools 0.7, but 0.6 final
>>isn't out yet.
>
>I don't know what "nest" is.  Is it described anywhere?

Yes.  For example, in some of our previous IRC chats regarding setuptools.  :)

You can also google for distutils nest or setuptools nest and find quite a 
lot of previous discussion.  The design (such as it is) is only found in 
outline form in my PIM.