[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 6/21/12 5:50 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
> A minor backwards incompat here to fix that issue would be 
> appropriate, if only to be able to say "hey, that issue no longer 
> exists" to folks who condemn the entire ecosystem based on that bug.  
> At least, that is, if there will be another release of setuptools.  Is 
> that likely?
or simply do that fix in distribute since it's Python 3 compatible -- 
and have setuptools officially discontinued for the sake of clarity.