[Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

[Tarek Ziadé]

Hello,

We have started a new project called 'Distribute'. It's a fork of
setuptools and its initial purpose will be to tackle
the most annoying bugs found in setuptools 0.6c9 version.

A first version will be released as soon as possible (probably next
monday) and a document will explain how to migrate
from setuptools. This should be fairly easy.

The next step of the project will be some cleanup and a split in two
distinct distributions:

- one that contains only pkg_resources
- one with the setuptools package.

The project is here : http://bitbucket.org/tarek/setuptoolsbranch

We have an issue tracker there where you can add feature requests and bugs.

Since its a DVCS repo, anyone is welcome to contribute patches.

Regards

Hanno, Chris, Tarek, and some other folks...