Éric Araujo added the comment:
The PyPI page now starts with this text:
Distutils2 development is stopped.
tl;dr: keep using setuptools and pip for now, don’t use distutils2.
Distutils2 tried to be all things to all people; Python core developers and
developers of packaging tools have a
Éric Araujo added the comment:
First link is broken because the distutils2 project in its current form is
stopped and the doc is nowhere. (Obsolete versions can be found in a few
places :/) Second link is broken due to Python wiki config changes.
I will update the PyPI metadata to explain
New submission from Kevin Lyda:
The pypi entry for distutils2 has a comical set of broken links (docs and
contributing): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Distutils2
The following two paragraphs have broken links. Adding a link checker to your
browser isn't the worst idea.
The Distutils2 codebase
