[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

[Eric Smith]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> 
> 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.

But even if it's possible to make it circular, is that really a good 
design? I think not.

Eric.