[Distutils] How to force installing setuptools instead of distribute ?

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 10:50 AM 7/1/2010 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> It's precisely because Ubuntu is a good distribution that they decided
>> to switch to distribute to get the most active project in it.
>
> Really?  I would've thought that the most *stable* version of a project
> would generally be the better choice for an operating system distribution.
>  ;-)

It's a better choice than setuptools, which is unmaintained for two
years with pending bugfixes.

Stable != unmaintained ;)