[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:02:58 -0300
"Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn" <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> 
> Fortunately, this issue is fixable! I opened a bug report and I and a
> others have provided patches that makes setuptools stop doing this
> behavior. This makes the above documentation true again. The negative
> impact on features or backwards-compatibility doesn't seem to be
> great.
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue53
> 
> Philip J. Eby provisionally approved of one of the patches, except for
> some specific requirement that I didn't really understand how to fix
> and that now I don't exactly remember:
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-January/010880.html

These days, I think you should really target distribute, not setuptools.

Regards

Antoine.