[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 20 Apr, 2009, at 22:12, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry you feel that way, as I've been *trying* to help.  I just  
>> still
>> don't get what the problem is.  If I were porting setuptools to  
>> Python 3, I
>> would *want* it to be circular, even if I had to hack on it a  
>> little at
>> first.  So I have a hard time understanding why you don't.
>
> But it CAN NOT be circular under Python 3.

I don't understand why not, doing it may be not entirely trivial but  
it should be possible with some trickery.  As PJE noted one way to do  
this is to explicitly convert setuptools to python 3.x syntax before  
actually running setup.py (e.g. his setup3.py file).  With some care  
this could even be done in setup.py itself.

Ronald
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