On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Éric Araujo wrote: > >> Distribute is a fork of Setupools, so it wants to be a drop-in >> replacement, i.e. to be used instead of setuptools with very few code >> changes. > > But is there a technical reason why it *has* to be a > drop-in replacement, as opposed to a different package > with a different name?
This technical reason was already explained in this mailing list back then, many times. Maybe you could read back the relevant threads for more details. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
