Welcome to Distribute’s documentation!

Distribute is a fork of the Setuptools project.

Distribute is intended to replace Setuptools as the standard method for working with Python module distributions.

For those who may wonder why they should switch to Distribute over Setuptools, it’s quite simple:

• Distribute is a drop-in replacement for Setuptools
• The code is actively maintained, and has over 10 commiters
• Distribute offers Python 3 support !

Documentation content:

• Roadmap
  • 0.6.x
  • 0.7.x
• Supporting both Python 2 and Python 3 with Distribute
  • Distribute as help during porting
  • Distributing Python 3 modules
  • Advanced features
  • Note on compatibility with setuptools
• Using Distribute in your project
• Building and Distributing Packages with Distribute
  • Developer’s Guide
  • Command Reference
  • Extending and Reusing Distribute
• Easy Install
  • Using “Easy Install”
  • Reference Manual
  • History
  • Future Plans
• Package Discovery and Resource Access using pkg_resources
  • Overview
  • API Reference

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Copy & paste:

curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
python distribute_setup.py
easy_install pip