Differences between distribute, distutils, setuptools and distutils2?
问题 The Situation I’m trying to port an open-source library to Python 3. (SymPy, if anyone is wondering.) So, I need to run 2to3 automatically when building for Python 3. To do that, I need to use distribute . Therefore, I need to port the current system, which (according to the doctest) is distutils . The Problem Unfortunately, I’m not sure what’s the difference between these modules— distutils , distribute , setuptools . The documentation is sketchy as best, as they all seem to be a fork of one