On 6 July 2013 18:20, Damon McDougall <[email protected]> wrote:

> Long story.  The short story is that distutils was merged into setuptools.
>  So setuptools is now the recommended way to install python packages.


*distribute*, which was a fork of setuptools, was merged into setuptools.
*distutils* is the component in the standard library, and is still there. I
still prefer distutils where possible, precisely because setuptools' eggs
are a mess.

Thomas
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