Comment 5 for bug 428004

Here's a detailed explanation of the problem:

http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/41

I doubt setuptools will be fixed and released any soon for that. The project didn't see any commit from his maintainer since a year, and
he doesn't want anyone else that wish to help to take over to do so.

That's why we created a fork called Distribute that tries to fix the bugs founded in this project.

So there are two options for projects that build extensions:

- use plain distutils
- switch to Distribute 0.6.x.