Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Oh, you're requiring setuptools now? I didn't notice that. Cool.
>   
Just for Python 2.3 so that we could sanitize the setup.py a little.
(Namely for the backport of the package_data field to setup().) It's not
required for Python >= 2.4 since package_data is already in stock
distutils there.