[Distutils] the virtualenv-distribute mess

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Tue Oct 13 00:14:00 CEST 2009


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Chris Withers wrote:

> Huh? Why? I just don't buy this. We've effectively had a bdfl 
> pronouncement that setuptools is dead. distribute 0.6 *is* now the "live 
> supported setuptools" so any project that relies on the package called 
> "setuptools" should now be using the "distribute" distribution...

Are you being wilfully ignorant here, Chris?  he BDFL doesn't "control"
setuptools, because it is a *third party package*.


Tres.
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