#Python is just doing great. We're not having impossible constraints, as some projects need old #setuptools for pkg_resources, and other projects are starting to require newer setuptools for some fancy new features. And ofc after promising to release pkg_resources standalone over a month ago, setuptools upstream didn't deliver.

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/863

#Gentoo

@mgorny oh, I recently had to patch out pkg_resource use out of something I don’t remember, too…