[Distutils] Packaging situation + mailing list rules

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:

>
> FTR, when some extreme distribute fans proposed that the PyPI setuptools
> entry had to be given to distribute, people (including Guido if my
> memory’s not failing) sternly replied that this was rude and unwelcome.
>
> As already stated elsewhere more than once, the fact that distribute
> provides the setuptools Python package is a technical requirement.

Ah, sorry about that, I missed it. What is that technical requirement ?

David