py-distribute update leftover

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 3/10/2012 11:37 PM, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
> Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote on 03.10.2012 17:30:
>> 03.10.2012 16:19, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
>>>> PPS: This is the only bad thing in switching to py-distribute -
>>>> everything else works: trac, viewvc, others...
>>>
>>> The main problem as for me is that this two systems conflicting. And we
>>> have some amount of ports that need to be fixed before trying to ever do
>>> distribute exp-runs - the ones that depend on setuptools directly, not
>>> via USE_PYDISTUTILS (most of trac ports for example).
>>
>> Hmm, if I will come up with a patch would that count?
>>
>> I'm already running patched trac locally and everything I had done was
>> just unhardcoding setuptools dependency.
>
> Sure, please do, I started it couple of months ago, but never finished.
>

I'm also keen to see distribute replace setuptools

I have a py-distribute WIP for making it PREFIX safe, as I came across a 
couple of hurdles when 'port test'ing. Hope it helps:

https://redports.org/browser/koobs/devel/py-distribute

Note: I also had/have setuptools patched out of bsd.python.mk as a 
BUILD_DEPENDS when PYTHON_SUFFIX  < 30