[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Apr 20 19:04:28 CEST 2009


At 06:31 PM 4/20/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>Let me reformulate that:
>
> > Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run,
> > test itself, etc.
>
>Why do I need setuptools to do that? Why is not distutils enough?

Because distutils doesn't have an egg_info command, or SVN-based 
manifest building (for making sdists).



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