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

[P.J. Eby]

At 07:53 PM 10/5/2009 +0200, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>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?

Yes.  And a very nice fix, done quite quickly.  Thank you Tarek.


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

AFAICT, that is correct.