lantz/mininet — comment on commit 897b0c6db49162f323e367a8c540d720524321ef
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By brandonheller:

Great! For over a year we've had an issue with using 'python setup.py develop', which installs using a link to the source, and had to run 'python setup.py install' instead, which is really error prone. Never spent much time to fix it. Do you know if this fixes the 'python setup.py develop' error?

Also, why is this adding distutils? I'm not a Python expert, but I had thought setuptools had replaced distutils. Glancing online it looks like some love it and some hate it.

And not related to the changes in this commit but in the same file: hardcoding the version number in setup.py seems like a recipe for confusion. I've added this as a separate issue:
https://github.com/mininet/mininet/issues/3