[Distutils] Stop using setuptools or distribute in buildout (was Re: Fwd: Re: window 64bit madness)

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Mon Apr 4 19:16:10 CEST 2011


On 19/03/2011 16:04, Jim Fulton wrote:
> Buildout uses the easy_install command to build, but it would do
> better to just invoke a project's setup script, possibly after
> arranging that certain other required packages are accessible to the
> setup script.

Support for setup_requires would be extremely welcome!

cheers,

Chris

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