distribute vs setuptools

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:55:33PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Since I'm the current setuptools maintainer and have had issues trying to
> get bugs fixed in upstream setuptools before, I'm inclined to do this as
> well but the drawbacks are nothing to ignore.  So what do other people think
> of our doing this as well?  If we don't do this, an alternative might be to
> plan on packaging distribute0.6 and distribute0.7 parallel installable.
> Then we can port packages to use distribute instead of setuptools when its
> available and submit those patches to upstream projects.

My gut feeling is +1. I have had long running gripes with both some bit
of the code in setuptools, and the impossibility to improve them.

Gaël