On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 21:18, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Buildout supports installing zipped eggs because setuptools does.
>
> Most people find zipped eggs a pain and complain that buildout should
> always unzip.
>
> As part of my work to simplify buildout's implementation, I'm dropping
> support for setuptools. This isn't because I don't appreciate
> setuptools.  Setuptools made Python packaging really
> work. Unfortunately, setuptools doesn't support Python 3 and life is
> too short to try to support both distribute and setuptools.

+1

//Lennart
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