setuptools for Python modules

[Duncan Gibson]

> But when I installed simplejson, something was clever enough
> to first install the Python setup tools directly, bypassing the
> setuptools module completely. So the setuptools module still
> appears as a "not installed" module.
>
> Question: is it worthwhile to:
> (a) add "depends setuptools" to the new simplejson module,
>     and potentially a lot of other python based modules, or
> (b) just let modules auto-install it if needed outside of the
>     lunar package management system and hence untracked, or
> (c) somehow add setuptools as a post-install to Python itself?

I realized that not every Python module is written to use the
setuptools auto-download, so I took the easy route with (a).

D.