[Distutils] Migrating Hashes from MD5 to SHA256

[Antoine Pitrou]

Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:
> Most people will use the setuptools bundled with virtualenv which has
> only ever bundled 0.6 or 0.9.

Why do you think that? According to PyPI:
- virtualenv:
4664 downloads in the last day
34512 downloads in the last week
- setuptools:
23901 downloads in the last day
197351 downloads in the last week

Certainly setuptools use seems much more widespread than virtualenv use.

Regards

Antoine.