[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

[Ben Finney]

Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> writes:

> 2009/4/20 Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com>:
> > I don't have a good solution to this, unless we can drop setuptools
> > dependency on setuptools completely, and just use plain distutils
> > for installing and testing setuptools.
> 
> Personally, this type of circular dependency seems totally wrong. I'd
> argue that making setuptools not depend on itself is the right thing
> to do, unless someone can provide a compelling reason why it is
> necessary (and such a reason would hopefully then provide more
> concrete avenues for looking for other possible alternative
> approaches).

Yes, that seems crazy-making to me and I wasn't aware it was the current
situation.

+1 for building setuptools on a base of distutils only, especially if
it's already been achieved.

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Ben Finney