[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

[P.J. Eby]

At 10:19 AM 4/20/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>I don't have a good solution to this, unless we can drop setuptools
>dependency on setuptools completely, and just use plain distutils for
>installing and testing setuptools.

I still don't understand why you can't have a setup3.py that uses 
only distutils, in order to run the build2to3 on.  Am I missing something?

i.e., ISTM that you should be able to do something like:

   python3 setup3.py build_2to3
   cd wherevertheoutputgoes
   python3 setup.py test  (or whatever)