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Official project repository for the Setuptools build system

38 mentions on Hacker News by 30 people: 8 stories, 30 comments · first 2017-06-01 · latest 2026-02-12

Mentions per year 38 mentions · busiest year 2025 (16)
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  1. ▲ 2
    Restore Pkg_resources #5174
    story by nioj · 2026-02-12 · 0 comments
  2. ▲ 4
    Setuptools: Governance and Change Management Review After Breaking Change
    story by lyu07282 · 2025-05-22 · 0 comments
  3. ▲ 12
    Tell HN: I forked and republished a popular, abandoned Python library
    story by zahlman · 2025-03-27 · 4 comments
  4. ▲ 22
    Setuptools version 78.0.1 breaks install of many packages
    story by computronus · 2025-03-24 · 12 comments
  5. ▲ 56
    Some packages are no longer installable after test command is removed
    story by pcwelder · 2024-07-29 · 32 comments
  6. ▲ 2
    InvalidVersion Exception on Setuptools 66
    story by jjgreen · 2023-01-31 · 0 comments
  7. ▲ 97
    Python setuptools v50 breaks pip installation on Debian/Ubuntu
    story by _ykfk · 2020-08-31 · 135 comments
  8. ▲ 2
    Python setuptools 36.0; still broken, 9 hours later
    story by shadowmint · 2017-06-01 · 3 comments