On 2012年6月21日 12:02:58 -0300 "Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn" <zooko at zooko.com> wrote: >> Fortunately, this issue is fixable! I opened a bug report and I and a > others have provided patches that makes setuptools stop doing this > behavior. This makes the above documentation true again. The negative > impact on features or backwards-compatibility doesn't seem to be > great. >> http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue53 >> Philip J. Eby provisionally approved of one of the patches, except for > some specific requirement that I didn't really understand how to fix > and that now I don't exactly remember: >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-January/010880.html These days, I think you should really target distribute, not setuptools. Regards Antoine.