[Distutils] should setuptools be an implicit dependency of every egg?

[Bob Ippolito]

On 9/19/06, Martijn Faassen <faassen at infrae.com> wrote:
>
> Normally setuptools is installed system-wide. When you install an egg
> using easy_install, the egg itself can count on setuptools being
> available, and use for instance its resource management API and
> namespace package marking facility. It therefore is unnecessary to users
> to mark setuptools as a dependency to their eggs in setup.py. Since it's
> unnecessary, it'll just not be done.
>
..
> So, would this be something that could be added to setuptools?

+1

-bob