[Distutils] Setuptools 0.8 and Distribute 0.7.3 (legacy wrapper) now released

[Jason R. Coombs]

The PyPA is excited to announce the public release of Setuptools 0.8. This
release of setuptools provides no additional functionality over Setuptools
0.7.x except that it no longer requires 2to3 to build/install on Python 3.
What this means for packaging is that tools like pip and virtualenv can now
invoke setuptools directly on all supported Python versions (currently
2.4+). This build enables more natural upgrades and helps address many of
the bugs that the 2to3 conversion process triggered.

 

Additionally, Distribute 0.7.3 has also been released to PyPI. Distribute
0.7 was designed to ease the upgrade process from Distribute 0.6.x to
Setuptools 0.7. This new version, 0.7.3, is a re-release of the legacy
wrapper 0.7, but additionally bundles the Setuptools 0.8 code for the
purposes of bootstrapping the upgrade. This version specifically eases
upgrades on systems running older systems. Now, one can readily upgrade any
environment with Distribute 0.6 by simply upgrading (using pip or
easy_install) to Distribute 0.7.3, which will replace the 'distribute'
package with an empty shell leaving setuptools >= 0.7 (probably 0.8)
installed.

 

Enjoy, and please report any issues with either of these packages at the
Setuptools project page (https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools).

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