[Distutils] Distutils 2.7/3.1 and setuptools stack overflow

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:14 PM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> It's possible that this could be resolved in some other way, but IIUC Tarek
> has already implemented a setuptools patch to fix this, which has been
> applied to the "Distribute" fork of setuptools.

Yes I came up with the same analysis, and I have applied the same fix
Martin is mentioning in
Distribute, which is also the latest patch added in setuptools tracker
some times ago.