Will not build on python 3.x

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Attempt to run the installer on python 3.x

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected - package builds correctly

Instead I get a huge error stack
C:\Users\******\Desktop\Mumble mixbot\protobuf-2.6.0\python>python setup.py 
build

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 199, in <module>
    "Protocol Buffers are Google's data interchange format.",
  File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\core.py", line 108, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\dist.py", line 262, in __init__
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\dist.py", line 287, in fetch_build_eggs
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 631, in resolve
    for project_name in plugin_projects:
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 874, in best_match
    resource_name
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\pkg_resources.py", line 886, in obtain
    self, resource_name
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\dist.py", line 338, in fetch_build_egg
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 613, in easy_install
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 643, in install_item
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 833, in install_eggs
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1055, in build_and_install
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1040, in run_setup
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 68, in run_setup
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 114, in run
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 67, in runner
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\setuptools-5.7-py3.4.egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 43, in _execfile
  File "C:\Users\Austin\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-ghkk36gd\google-apputils-0.4.0\setup.py", line 18, in <module>
    sys.stderr.write(
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-ghkk36gd\google-apputils-0.4.0\ez_setup.py", line 79
    except pkg_resources.VersionConflict, e:
                                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Protobuf 2.6.0, Windows 7 x64, Python 3.4.1

Please provide any additional information below.
Attempted a fresh reinstall of python.  Did not help.  Found python3-protobuf 
package on PyPi but it is not the most recent version.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by amdep...@mtu.edu on 5 Sep 2014 at 4:57
jasonjack2015 / protobuf

Will not build on python 3.x #668
