[Distutils] Distribute instead of setuptools for virtualenv?

[Lennart Regebro]

2012/1/16 Christian Ştefănescu <st.chris at gmail.com>:
> I'd like to know if I can create my virtualenvs with "--distribute" without
> any other changes, since distribute is advertised as being backwards
> compatible with setuptools?

It should work as well or better, yes. If not, that's a bug.

> Also, if this works just fine, wouldn't it make sense to make Distribute the
> default for virtualenv at some point?

In my opinion, yes.

//Lennart