setuptools for mercurial-0.9.5

[James Mills]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:45:27PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> I'm afraid it needs to go a step further, and only use setuptools if given 
> an option to turn it on.  I have setuptools installed because it's needed 
> by other Python packages, so your current approach won't work.

setuptools is backwards compatible with distutils, so even
if you have setuptools installed you do not have to use
any of it's build or installation features. Just build/install
as per normal.

cheers
James

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