[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

[P.J. Eby]

At 06:31 PM 4/20/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>Let me reformulate that:
>
> > Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run,
> > test itself, etc.
>
>Why do I need setuptools to do that? Why is not distutils enough?

Because distutils doesn't have an egg_info command, or SVN-based 
manifest building (for making sdists).