[Distutils] How to force installing setuptools instead of distribute ?

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Yes, that's the core of the issue. Setuptools does not seem so
> obnoxious anymore... this is quite infuriating.

FWIW, the issue seems to a mix of distribute claiming to be any
setuptools version + ubuntu virtualenv package which does not include
the setuptools eggs.

I don't understand why this "works" this way, but adding the
setuptools eggs into the ubuntu virtualenv package makes the issue
goes away (i.e. virtualenv does use setuptools and not distribute as
advertised in its help message). That may help someone else with the
same issue

David