Never really understood why you needed this in the first place. The
automatic setuptools installation has caused me some grief as it
installs an obsolete version ... I forgot the exact specifics but it
took me quite a while to track down that installing django was causing
all kinds of strange problems with other python modules.

I think it is fair to say that having the situation where installing
django will also covertly install setuptools is greatly undesirable.

As many have pointed out, using a MANIFEST.in provides a very simple
means to use file globbing for files and directories. If that was the
main reason for using setuptools you'd have a straightforward solution
right away.

i.

ps. Nowadays I don't ever install it, I just simply add the django
folder to my python path and have not had any problems. I would not
treat django as a python module anymore, installing into the python
site libraries makes keeping track of different releases very difficult.


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