guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg mon mar 17 2008 1212 pm paul moore wrote dont see practical difference including setuptools including module installs setuptools would happy standard library including module whose sole function install package werent happy include directly standard library wouldnt personally actually quite different user administrator control choose install setuptools guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 070020 0500 pythondev distutils pep 365 adding pkg_resources module