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Mon Oct 5 19:06:22 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/092608.html

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>
>> The only question is, given that 2.6.x is supposed to be a bug-fix branch, do we
>> want to fix that incompatibility with a widely deployed existing piece of
>> software? Whether or not the incompatibility is legitimate (i.e., whether
>> setuptools is badly written and relies on implementation details) is beyond the
>> point, IMO.
> 
> Right. As discussed with Barry, I will work on an internal special
> case in Distutils in the 2.6 maint.
> branch so it fixes the incompatibility with the Setuptools 0.6c9 release.

You could add a selective work-around that just triggers if setuptools
has been loaded on the 2.6 branch.

if sys.modules.has_key('setuptools'):
   # monkey-patch fix-up setuptools to work with the new code
   ...

or the other way around:

if sys.modules.has_key('setuptools'):
   # undo r1234 to make setuptools 0.6c9 happy again
   ...

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