[Python-Dev] a new setuptools release?

[P.J. Eby]

At 07:27 PM 10/7/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>Having more competition will also help, e.g. ActiveState's PyPM looks
>promising (provided they choose to open-source it) and then there's
>pip.

Note that both PyPM and pip use setuptools as an important piece of 
their implementation (as does buildout), so they are technically the 
competition of easy_install, rather than setuptools per se.

IOW, putting setuptools in the stdlib wouldn't be declaring a victor 
in the installation tools competition, it'd simply be providing 
infrastructure for (present and future) tools to build on.