commit aaabe592 breaking Python builds in lots of places

"Ken McDonell" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.pcp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nathan,

Commit aaabe592 changed from using distutils to setuptools in 
src/python/setup.py.

This has broken the build all over my QA landscape.

The Python setuptools module is not installed on lots of my machines 
(many are not on the internet so I can't upgrade them till March), and 
I'm not even sure the package is available for some platforms, and there 
is no corresponding change in qa/admin/check-vm to provide a hint of 
this new build dependency.

Can we consider changing this to be a configure-driven option to only 
use setuptools if that module is installed?

I know I've mentioned it before, but I'll repeat that Python would 
appear to be the most ill-conceived development ecosystem on the face of 
the planet!

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