[Distutils] setuptools 8 changes are great, but ...

[Jeremy Stanley]

On 2014-12-16 02:25:33 -0500 (-0500), Donald Stufft wrote:
> Openstack won’t be providing one, they are adapting server to PEP
> 440 syntax.
[...]

Confirmed, we're very close now and will likely be interoperating
with Setuptools 8 in our test infrastructure for all supported
branches later this week (depending on what direction we end up
going for embedded Git SHAs in unreleased dev sdist/wheel version
strings).
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Jeremy Stanley