[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Anthony Baxter wrote:

> I also don't think it will be the "death" of distutils. I think that
> over time the two pieces of code will become closer together -
> hopefully for Python 3.0 we can formally merge the two.

I was hoping that for Python 3.0, we could get around to unkludge the
sys.path/meta_path/path_hooks/path_importer_cache big ball of hacks,
possibly by replacing sys.path with something a bit more intelligent than
a plain list.

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