[Distutils] Package install failures in 2.6.3 - setuptools vs Distribute

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/5 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:
>> I apologize for my part in this, but moving forward I think that if it's
>> possible to patch and release a setuptools that works with Python 2.6.3
>> /and/ earlier Python 2.6.x's, then that should happen asap.
>
> PJE seems interested in this, as he asked about a patch, so maybe.

It was pushed in setuptools bug tracker by Ned yesterday IIRC, with
links to the patch that works.