We are still actively working in fixing all the remaining bugs in Distribute (our Setuptools fork).
But we have reached an important milestone this week: both virtualenv and zc.buildout now comes with an option to switch to Distribute.
In virtualenv:
$ virtualenv --distribute ENV
In zc.buildout, using its bootstrap.py file:
$ python bootstrap.py --distribute
Enjoy !
For those who may wonder why they should switch to Distribute over
Setuptools, it's quite simple:
- Distribute 0.6.x is a drop-in replacement for Setuptools
- Distribute is actively maintained, and has over 10 commiters
- Distribute 0.6.x offers Python 3 support !
And if you still struggle with packaging issues, the place to hang around to get some help is the #distutils IRC channel on Freenode.