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

[Hanno Schlichting]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> I've opened an issue of the main Python issue tracker outlining the
> problem, primarily for the benefit of affected users who search the
> tracker:
>
>   http://bugs.python.org/issue7064

If I understand the comments on this ticket correctly, Tarek has
changed distutils in a way so the last setuptools release continues to
work, correct?

So based on the current state of Python 2.6.4 will work again with an
unmodified setuptools 0.6c9?

Hanno