Distribute was a fork of Setuptools, but the two have now merged into
Setuptools (since version 0.7). This patch replaces the old Distribute
bootstrap script distribute_setup.py with the latest Setuptools
bootstrap script ez_setup.py.
On systems with the new Setuptools, the build would fail with the
follwing error message:
ValueError: A 0.7-series setuptools cannot be installed with
distribute. Found one at /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Distribute was a fork of Setuptools, but the two have now merged into Setuptools (since version 0.7). This patch replaces the old Distribute bootstrap script
distribute_setup.pywith the latest Setuptools bootstrap scriptez_setup.py.On systems with the new Setuptools, the build would fail with the follwing error message:
The new bootstrap script fixes this.