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[pygame] Should setuptools be used by setup.py? (and a bdist_mpkg_support Mac question)



A setuptools bug that prevented compilation when Pyrex is installed has been fixed. Now I am considering enabling setuptools by default for all builds. This will allow the building of eggs. It also means that the setup.py install command installs an egg rather than a normal packaged directory. Is this a good idea? I have not seeing problems with my Windows builds. If setuptools in not present then setup.py will just use vanilla distutils. But I see that the loading of setuptools is conditional on bdist_mpkg_support. So I wish to confirm this dependency for the Mac. Does setuptools require bdist_mpkg, or is bdist_mpkg only dependent on setuptools?

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Lenard Lindstrom
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