I saw Jason Coombs (new setuptools maintainer) last night at the BACON PIG meeting. It sounds like the new, merged setuptools is getting pretty close to final release. 0.7 beta 1 has been release which contains the merge of setuptools and distribute: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads Jason says they're just trying to get a bit more feedback before uploading to PyPI. He also said that it should be almost entirely backward compatible with distribute. I think he said the one noticeable difference is that zip eggs are now the default again. Details of the merge effort are here: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/src/330fb0be659a/MERGE.txt?at=default referenced from the changelog: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/src/330fb0be659a/CHANGES.txt?at=default It sounded to me like Jason had a fairly short beta period in mind, such that a setuptools 0.7 release will happen in the next couple of weeks. I think we should consider switching back to setuptools once 0.7 is released (defined as "available on PyPI), since this will clearly be the future of this component. We may have some fallout to deal with in other packages (e.g. virtualenv) that depend on this, and clearly setuptools/distribute is a central part of our stack. But it seems like now is a good time to shake that out for Jessie. -Barry
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