[python-win32] Interest for patch enabling building egg ?

[Mark Hammond]

On 4/11/2009 1:15 AM, David Cournapeau wrote:
> (sorry for having forgotten to CC the list the first time)
>
>> On 2/11/2009 6:34 PM, David Cournapeau wrote:
>
>>> The way I did was similar to what we do in numpy, that is setup.py is
>>> still using distutils by default, but if you call setupegg.py, you get
>>> the setuptools feature set. The changes to pywin32 sources are minimal
>>> (<    20 lines), and none of the changes should affect current users.
>
> I attached the patch to this email.
>
> The only test I have done is that python setupegg.py and setup.py
> install generate the same tree (and that the produced egg is working).
> I am not very familiar with pywin32, so if there is a formal test
> suite to run, let me know,

Sorry for the delay,
   Is it possible to just have 'setup.py bdist_egg' do the right thing 
without the new setupegg.py?

Cheers,

Mark