[Distutils] trouble building setuptools on centos 3.8

[P.J. Eby]

At 02:52 PM 3/2/2010 -0500, Mathieu Jobin wrote:
>maybe you can help me. there is something wrong with building this 
>rpm package ?
>
>maybe because I am running ....
>
>Python 2.2.3 (#1, May  1 2006, 12:33:49)

Setuptools requires Python 2.3, preferably 2.3.5 or higher.