[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #1582: zetuptoolz delenda est

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#1582: zetuptoolz delenda est
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     Reporter:  davidsarah  |      Owner:  somebody
         Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major       |  Milestone:  1.10.3
    Component:  packaging   |    Version:  1.9.0b1
   Resolution:              |   Keywords:  setuptools review-needed
Launchpad Bug:              |
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Comment (by warner):

 BTW, for those visiting this ticket in the future, the original intent was
 to stop using **setuptools**, i.e. go back to `distutils`. This was borne
 out of frustration with the bad-old-days when setuptools was not being
 maintained, forks like `distribute` were rampant, and `virtualenv` was not
 yet a thing. Later, setuptools improved for the better, and `virtualenv`
 provided a well-supported way of doing the funky custom thing we'd built
 in Tahoe. So some time around 2014 or 2015, we changed our minds, embraced
 the new setuptools, and this ticket was changed to be about stopping our
 use of **zetuptoolz** (Tahoe's embedded fork of setuptools, by this point
 horribly horribly ancient).

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