[Distutils] Differences in PEP386 and setuptools

Donald Stufft donald.stufft at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 22:24:42 CEST 2012


On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Note that this was an intentional difference with setuptools. 
Do you have any idea _why_? It seems from my perspective (of someone 
who wasn't really paying attention back then) to be a fairly arbitrary difference
in both prior art and what I've personally seen as the common usage that has
a good chance of causing confusion (as it already has).
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