[Distutils] Setuptools should not depend on setuptools.

[Lennart Regebro]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 22:56, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> If you're trying to say that you want a build process that can run without
> there being a 2.x interpreter present, but starts with the same source code
> base, I don't see how that's possible without having some sort of
> alternative setup3.py or other .py scripts present, to do the conversion.

It's not a problem in general, the probleme here is that setuptools
setup.py depends on setuptools, causing a catch22 situation, where you
need to convert setuptools to Python3, before you can run the
installer install it, and therefore you can't run the installer to
convert to Python 3.

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