[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

[Antonio Cavallo]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:04 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> 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).

Why the SVN handling should be part of setup.py anyway?
Regards,
Antonio