[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

[David Cournapeau]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>
> In the short term, Distutils needs to be a better citizen when people
> wants to extend it, so they can do it without re-writing everything.
>
> You have this experience of "pain", share it through real use cases.
>   

I have added 5 usecases in the manifest plugin page, in order of
difficulty/pain. The first ones should be solvable in distutils with
your proposal, I am not sure about the last ones.

David