Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

[Thomas K. <th...@kl...>]

On 6 July 2013 18:20, Damon McDougall <dam...@gm...> wrote:

> Long story.  The short story is that distutils was merged into setuptools.
>  So setuptools is now the recommended way to install python packages.


*distribute*, which was a fork of setuptools, was merged into setuptools.
*distutils* is the component in the standard library, and is still there. I
still prefer distutils where possible, precisely because setuptools' eggs
are a mess.

Thomas