initial drop of setuptools v39.1.0
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+v39.1.0
+-------
+
+* #1340: Update all PyPI URLs to reflect the switch to the
+ new Warehouse codebase.
+* #1337: In ``pkg_resources``, now support loading resources
+ for modules loaded by the ``SourcelessFileLoader``.
+* #1332: Silence spurious wheel related warnings on Windows.
+
+v39.0.1
+-------
+
+* #1297: Restore Unicode handling for Maintainer fields in
+ metadata.
+
+v39.0.0
+-------
+
+* #1296: Setuptools now vendors its own direct dependencies, no
+ longer relying on the dependencies as vendored by pkg_resources.
+
+* #296: Removed long-deprecated support for iteration on
+ Version objects as returned by ``pkg_resources.parse_version``.
+ Removed the ``SetuptoolsVersion`` and
+ ``SetuptoolsLegacyVersion`` names as well. They should not
+ have been used, but if they were, replace with
+ ``Version`` and ``LegacyVersion`` from ``packaging.version``.
+
+v38.7.0
+-------
+
+* #1288: Add support for maintainer in PKG-INFO.
+
+v38.6.1
+-------
+
+* #1292: Avoid generating ``Provides-Extra`` in metadata when
+ no extra is present (but environment markers are).
+
+v38.6.0
+-------
+
+* #1286: Add support for Metadata 2.1 (PEP 566).
+
+v38.5.2
+-------
+
+* #1285: Fixed RuntimeError in pkg_resources.parse_requirements
+ on Python 3.7 (stemming from PEP 479).
+
+v38.5.1
+-------
+
+* #1271: Revert to Cython legacy ``build_ext`` behavior for
+ compatibility.
+
+v38.5.0
+-------
+
+* #1229: Expand imports in ``build_ext`` to refine detection of
+ Cython availability.
+
+* #1270: When Cython is available, ``build_ext`` now uses the
+ new_build_ext.
+
+v38.4.1
+-------
+
+* #1257: In bdist_egg.scan_module, fix ValueError on Python 3.7.
+
+v38.4.0
+-------
+
+* #1231: Removed warning when PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE is enabled.
+
+v38.3.0
+-------
+
+* #1210: Add support for PEP 345 Project-URL metadata.
+* #1207: Add support for ``long_description_type`` to setup.cfg
+ declarative config as intended and documented.
+
+v38.2.5
+-------
+
+* #1232: Fix trailing slash handling in ``pkg_resources.ZipProvider``.
+
+v38.2.4
+-------
+
+* #1220: Fix `data_files` handling when installing from wheel.
+
+v38.2.3
+-------
+
+* fix Travis' Python 3.3 job.
+
+v38.2.2
+-------
+
+* #1214: fix handling of namespace packages when installing
+ from a wheel.
+
+v38.2.1
+-------
+
+* #1212: fix encoding handling of metadata when installing
+ from a wheel.
+
+v38.2.0
+-------
+
+* #1200: easy_install now support installing from wheels:
+ they will be installed as standalone unzipped eggs.
+
+v38.1.0
+-------
+
+* #1208: Improve error message when failing to locate scripts
+ in egg-info metadata.
+
+v38.0.0
+-------
+
+* #458: In order to support deterministic builds, Setuptools no
+ longer allows packages to declare ``install_requires`` as
+ unordered sequences (sets or dicts).
+
+v37.0.0
+-------
+
+* #878: Drop support for Python 2.6. Python 2.6 users should
+ rely on 'setuptools < 37dev'.
+
+v36.8.0
+-------
+
+* #1190: In SSL support for package index operations, use SNI
+ where available.
+
+v36.7.3
+-------
+
+* #1175: Bug fixes to ``build_meta`` module.
+
+v36.7.2
+-------
+
+* #701: Fixed duplicate test discovery on Python 3.
+
+v36.7.1
+-------
+
+* #1193: Avoid test failures in bdist_egg when
+ PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE is set.
+
+v36.7.0
+-------
+
+* #1054: Support ``setup_requires`` in ``setup.cfg`` files.
+
+v36.6.1
+-------
+
+* #1132: Removed redundant and costly serialization/parsing step
+ in ``EntryPoint.__init__``.
+
+* #844: ``bdist_egg --exclude-source-files`` now tested and works
+ on Python 3.
+
+v36.6.0
+-------
+
+* #1143: Added ``setuptools.build_meta`` module, an implementation
+ of PEP-517 for Setuptools-defined packages.
+
+* #1143: Added ``dist_info`` command for producing dist_info
+ metadata.
+
+v36.5.0
+-------
+
+* #170: When working with Mercurial checkouts, use Windows-friendly
+ syntax for suppressing output.
+
+* Inspired by #1134, performed substantial refactoring of
+ ``pkg_resources.find_on_path`` to facilitate an optimization
+ for paths with many non-version entries.
+
+v36.4.0
+-------
+
+* #1075: Add new ``Description-Content-Type`` metadata field. `See here for
+ documentation on how to use this field.
+ <https://packaging.python.org/specifications/#description-content-type>`_
+
+* #1068: Sort files and directories when building eggs for
+ deterministic order.
+
+* #196: Remove caching of easy_install command in fetch_build_egg.
+ Fixes issue where ``pytest-runner-N.N`` would satisfy the installation
+ of ``pytest``.
+
+* #1129: Fix working set dependencies handling when replacing conflicting
+ distributions (e.g. when using ``setup_requires`` with a conflicting
+ transitive dependency, fix #1124).
+
+* #1133: Improved handling of README files extensions and added
+ Markdown to the list of searched READMES.
+
+* #1135: Improve performance of pkg_resources import by not invoking
+ ``access`` or ``stat`` and using ``os.listdir`` instead.
+
+v36.3.0
+-------
+
+* #1131: Make possible using several files within ``file:`` directive
+ in metadata.long_description in ``setup.cfg``.
+
+v36.2.7
+-------
+
+* fix #1105: Fix handling of requirements with environment
+ markers when declared in ``setup.cfg`` (same treatment as
+ for #1081).
+
+v36.2.6
+-------
+
+* #462: Don't assume a directory is an egg by the ``.egg``
+ extension alone.
+
+v36.2.5
+-------
+
+* #1093: Fix test command handler with extras_require.
+* #1112, #1091, #1115: Now using Trusty containers in
+ Travis for CI and CD.
+
+v36.2.4
+-------
+
+* #1092: ``pkg_resources`` now uses ``inspect.getmro`` to
+ resolve classes in method resolution order.
+
+v36.2.3
+-------
+
+* #1102: Restore behavior for empty extras.
+
+v36.2.2
+-------
+
+* #1099: Revert commit a3ec721, restoring intended purpose of
+ extras as part of a requirement declaration.
+
+v36.2.1
+-------
+
+* fix #1086
+* fix #1087
+* support extras specifiers in install_requires requirements
+
+v36.2.0
+-------
+
+* #1081: Environment markers indicated in ``install_requires``
+ are now processed and treated as nameless ``extras_require``
+ with markers, allowing their metadata in requires.txt to be
+ correctly generated.
+
+* #1053: Tagged commits are now released using Travis-CI
+ build stages, meaning releases depend on passing tests on
+ all supported Python versions (Linux) and not just the latest
+ Python version.
+
+v36.1.1
+-------
+
+* #1083: Correct ``py31compat.makedirs`` to correctly honor
+ ``exist_ok`` parameter.
+* #1083: Also use makedirs compatibility throughout setuptools.
+
+v36.1.0
+-------
+
+* #1083: Avoid race condition on directory creation in
+ ``pkg_resources.ensure_directory``.
+
+* Removed deprecation of and restored support for
+ ``upload_docs`` command for sites other than PyPI.
+ Only warehouse is dropping support, but services like
+ `devpi <http://doc.devpi.net/latest/>`_ continue to
+ support docs built by setuptools' plugins. See
+ `this comment <https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/devpi/issues/388/support-rtd-model-for-building-uploading#comment-34292423>`_
+ for more context on the motivation for this change.
+
+v36.0.1
+-------
+
+* #1042: Fix import in py27compat module that still
+ referenced six directly, rather than through the externs
+ module (vendored packages hook).
+
+v36.0.0
+-------
+
+* #980 and others: Once again, Setuptools vendors all
+ of its dependencies. It seems to be the case that in
+ the Python ecosystem, all build tools must run without
+ any dependencies (build, runtime, or otherwise). At
+ such a point that a mechanism exists that allows
+ build tools to have dependencies, Setuptools will adopt
+ it.
+
+v35.0.2
+-------
+
+* #1015: Fix test failures on Python 3.7.
+
+* #1024: Add workaround for Jython #2581 in monkey module.
+
+v35.0.1
+-------
+
+* #992: Revert change introduced in v34.4.1, now
+ considered invalid.
+
+* #1016: Revert change introduced in v35.0.0 per #1014,
+ referencing #436. The approach had unintended
+ consequences, causing sdist installs to be missing
+ files.
+
+v35.0.0
+-------
+
+* #436: In egg_info.manifest_maker, no longer read
+ the file list from the manifest file, and instead
+ re-build it on each build. In this way, files removed
+ from the specification will not linger in the manifest.
+ As a result, any files manually added to the manifest
+ will be removed on subsequent egg_info invocations.
+ No projects should be manually adding files to the
+ manifest and should instead use MANIFEST.in or SCM
+ file finders to force inclusion of files in the manifest.
+
+v34.4.1
+-------
+
+* #1008: In MSVC support, use always the last version available for Windows SDK and UCRT SDK.
+
+* #1008: In MSVC support, fix "vcruntime140.dll" returned path with Visual Studio 2017.
+
+* #992: In msvc.msvc9_query_vcvarsall, ensure the
+ returned dicts have str values and not Unicode for
+ compatibility with os.environ.
+
+v34.4.0
+-------
+
+* #995: In MSVC support, add support for "Microsoft Visual Studio 2017" and "Microsoft Visual Studio Build Tools 2017".
+
+* #999 via #1007: Extend support for declarative package
+ config in a setup.cfg file to include the options
+ ``python_requires`` and ``py_modules``.
+
+v34.3.3
+-------
+
+* #967 (and #997): Explicitly import submodules of
+ packaging to account for environments where the imports
+ of those submodules is not implied by other behavior.
+
+v34.3.2
+-------
+
+* #993: Fix documentation upload by correcting
+ rendering of content-type in _build_multipart
+ on Python 3.
+
+v34.3.1
+-------
+
+* #988: Trap ``os.unlink`` same as ``os.remove`` in
+ ``auto_chmod`` error handler.
+
+* #983: Fixes to invalid escape sequence deprecations on
+ Python 3.6.
+
+v34.3.0
+-------
+
+* #941: In the upload command, if the username is blank,
+ default to ``getpass.getuser()``.
+
+* #971: Correct distutils findall monkeypatch to match
+ appropriate versions (namely Python 3.4.6).
+
+v34.2.0
+-------
+
+* #966: Add support for reading dist-info metadata and
+ thus locating Distributions from zip files.
+
+* #968: Allow '+' and '!' in egg fragments
+ so that it can take package names that contain
+ PEP 440 conforming version specifiers.
+
+v34.1.1
+-------
+
+* #953: More aggressively employ the compatibility issue
+ originally added in #706.
+
+v34.1.0
+-------
+
+* #930: ``build_info`` now accepts two new parameters
+ to optimize and customize the building of C libraries.
+
+v34.0.3
+-------
+
+* #947: Loosen restriction on the version of six required,
+ restoring compatibility with environments relying on
+ six 1.6.0 and later.
+
+v34.0.2
+-------
+
+* #882: Ensure extras are honored when building the
+ working set.
+* #913: Fix issue in develop if package directory has
+ a trailing slash.
+
+v34.0.1
+-------
+
+* #935: Fix glob syntax in graft.
+
+v34.0.0
+-------
+
+* #581: Instead of vendoring the growing list of
+ dependencies that Setuptools requires to function,
+ Setuptools now requires these dependencies just like
+ any other project. Unlike other projects, however,
+ Setuptools cannot rely on ``setup_requires`` to
+ demand the dependencies it needs to install because
+ its own machinery would be necessary to pull those
+ dependencies if not present (a bootstrapping problem).
+ As a result, Setuptools no longer supports self upgrade or
+ installation in the general case. Instead, users are
+ directed to use pip to install and upgrade using the
+ ``wheel`` distributions of setuptools.
+
+ Users are welcome to contrive other means to install
+ or upgrade Setuptools using other means, such as
+ pre-installing the Setuptools dependencies with pip
+ or a bespoke bootstrap tool, but such usage is not
+ recommended and is not supported.
+
+ As discovered in #940, not all versions of pip will
+ successfully install Setuptools from its pre-built
+ wheel. If you encounter issues with "No module named
+ six" or "No module named packaging", especially
+ following a line "Running setup.py egg_info for package
+ setuptools", then your pip is not new enough.
+
+ There's an additional issue in pip where setuptools
+ is upgraded concurrently with other source packages,
+ described in pip #4253. The proposed workaround is to
+ always upgrade Setuptools first prior to upgrading
+ other packages that would upgrade Setuptools.
+
+v33.1.1
+-------
+
+* #921: Correct issue where certifi fallback not being
+ reached on Windows.
+
+v33.1.0
+-------
+
+Installation via pip, as indicated in the `Python Packaging
+User's Guide <https://packaging.python.org/installing/>`_,
+is the officially-supported mechanism for installing
+Setuptools, and this recommendation is now explicit in the
+much more concise README.
+
+Other edits and tweaks were made to the documentation. The
+codebase is unchanged.
+
+v33.0.0
+-------
+
+* #619: Removed support for the ``tag_svn_revision``
+ distribution option. If Subversion tagging support is
+ still desired, consider adding the functionality to
+ setuptools_svn in setuptools_svn #2.
+
+v32.3.1
+-------
+
+* #866: Use ``dis.Bytecode`` on Python 3.4 and later in
+ ``setuptools.depends``.
+
+v32.3.0
+-------
+
+* #889: Backport proposed fix for disabling interpolation in
+ distutils.Distribution.parse_config_files.
+
+v32.2.0
+-------
+
+* #884: Restore support for running the tests under
+ `pytest-runner <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-runner>`_
+ by ensuring that PYTHONPATH is honored in tests invoking
+ a subprocess.
+
+v32.1.3
+-------
+
+* #706: Add rmtree compatibility shim for environments where
+ rmtree fails when passed a unicode string.
+
+v32.1.2
+-------
+
+* #893: Only release sdist in zip format as warehouse now
+ disallows releasing two different formats.
+
+v32.1.1
+-------
+
+* #704: More selectively ensure that 'rmtree' is not invoked with
+ a byte string, enabling it to remove files that are non-ascii,
+ even on Python 2.
+
+* #712: In 'sandbox.run_setup', ensure that ``__file__`` is
+ always a ``str``, modeling the behavior observed by the
+ interpreter when invoking scripts and modules.
+
+v32.1.0
+-------
+
+* #891: In 'test' command on test failure, raise DistutilsError,
+ suppression invocation of subsequent commands.
+
+v32.0.0
+-------
+
+* #890: Revert #849. ``global-exclude .foo`` will not match all
+ ``*.foo`` files any more. Package authors must add an explicit
+ wildcard, such as ``global-exclude *.foo``, to match all
+ ``.foo`` files. See #886, #849.
+
+v31.0.1
+-------
+
+* #885: Fix regression where 'pkg_resources._rebuild_mod_path'
+ would fail when a namespace package's '__path__' was not
+ a list with a sort attribute.
+
+v31.0.0
+-------
+
+* #250: Install '-nspkg.pth' files for packages installed
+ with 'setup.py develop'. These .pth files allow
+ namespace packages installed by pip or develop to
+ co-mingle. This change required the removal of the
+ change for #805 and pip #1924, introduced in 28.3.0 and implicated
+ in #870, but means that namespace packages not in a
+ site packages directory will no longer work on Python
+ earlier than 3.5, whereas before they would work on
+ Python not earlier than 3.3.
+
+v30.4.0
+-------
+
+* #879: For declarative config:
+
+ - read_configuration() now accepts ignore_option_errors argument. This allows scraping tools to read metadata without a need to download entire packages. E.g. we can gather some stats right from GitHub repos just by downloading setup.cfg.
+
+ - packages find: directive now supports fine tuning from a subsection. The same arguments as for find() are accepted.
+
+v30.3.0
+-------
+
+* #394 via #862: Added support for `declarative package
+ config in a setup.cfg file
+ <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#configuring-setup-using-setup-cfg-files>`_.
+
+v30.2.1
+-------
+
+* #850: In test command, invoke unittest.main with
+ indication not to exit the process.
+
+v30.2.0
+-------
+
+* #854: Bump to vendored Packaging 16.8.
+
+v30.1.0
+-------
+
+* #846: Also trap 'socket.error' when opening URLs in
+ package_index.
+
+* #849: Manifest processing now matches the filename
+ pattern anywhere in the filename and not just at the
+ start. Restores behavior found prior to 28.5.0.
+
+v30.0.0
+-------
+
+* #864: Drop support for Python 3.2. Systems requiring
+ Python 3.2 support must use 'setuptools < 30'.
+
+* #825: Suppress warnings for single files.
+
+* #830 via #843: Once again restored inclusion of data
+ files to sdists, but now trap TypeError caused by
+ techniques employed rjsmin and similar.
+
+v29.0.1
+-------
+
+* #861: Re-release of v29.0.1 with the executable script
+ launchers bundled. Now, launchers are included by default
+ and users that want to disable this behavior must set the
+ environment variable
+ 'SETUPTOOLS_INSTALL_WINDOWS_SPECIFIC_FILES' to
+ a false value like "false" or "0".
+
+v29.0.0
+-------
+
+* #841: Drop special exception for packages invoking
+ win32com during the build/install process. See
+ Distribute #118 for history.
+
+v28.8.0
+-------
+
+* #629: Per the discussion, refine the sorting to use version
+ value order for more accurate detection of the latest
+ available version when scanning for packages. See also
+ #829.
+
+* #837: Rely on the config var "SO" for Python 3.3.0 only
+ when determining the ext filename.
+
+v28.7.1
+-------
+
+* #827: Update PyPI root for dependency links.
+
+* #833: Backed out changes from #830 as the implementation
+ seems to have problems in some cases.
+
+v28.7.0
+-------
+
+* #832: Moved much of the namespace package handling
+ functionality into a separate module for re-use in something
+ like #789.
+* #830: ``sdist`` command no longer suppresses the inclusion
+ of data files, re-aligning with the expectation of distutils
+ and addressing #274 and #521.
+
+v28.6.1
+-------
+
+* #816: Fix manifest file list order in tests.
+
+v28.6.0
+-------
+
+* #629: When scanning for packages, ``pkg_resources`` now
+ ignores empty egg-info directories and gives precedence to
+ packages whose versions are lexicographically greatest,
+ a rough approximation for preferring the latest available
+ version.
+
+v28.5.0
+-------
+
+* #810: Tests are now invoked with tox and not setup.py test.
+* #249 and #450 via #764: Avoid scanning the whole tree
+ when building the manifest. Also fixes a long-standing bug
+ where patterns in ``MANIFEST.in`` had implicit wildcard
+ matching. This caused ``global-exclude .foo`` to exclude
+ all ``*.foo`` files, but also ``global-exclude bar.py`` to
+ exclude ``foo_bar.py``.
+
+v28.4.0
+-------
+
+* #732: Now extras with a hyphen are honored per PEP 426.
+* #811: Update to pyparsing 2.1.10.
+* Updated ``setuptools.command.sdist`` to re-use most of
+ the functionality directly from ``distutils.command.sdist``
+ for the ``add_defaults`` method with strategic overrides.
+ See #750 for rationale.
+* #760 via #762: Look for certificate bundle where SUSE
+ Linux typically presents it. Use ``certifi.where()`` to locate
+ the bundle.
+
+v28.3.0
+-------
+
+* #809: In ``find_packages()``, restore support for excluding
+ a parent package without excluding a child package.
+
+* #805: Disable ``-nspkg.pth`` behavior on Python 3.3+ where
+ PEP-420 functionality is adequate. Fixes pip #1924.
+
+v28.1.0
+-------
+
+* #803: Bump certifi to 2016.9.26.
+
+v28.0.0
+-------
+
+* #733: Do not search excluded directories for packages.
+ This introduced a backwards incompatible change in ``find_packages()``
+ so that ``find_packages(exclude=['foo']) == []``, excluding subpackages of ``foo``.
+ Previously, ``find_packages(exclude=['foo']) == ['foo.bar']``,
+ even though the parent ``foo`` package was excluded.
+
+* #795: Bump certifi.
+
+* #719: Suppress decoding errors and instead log a warning
+ when metadata cannot be decoded.
+
+v27.3.1
+-------
+
+* #790: In MSVC monkeypatching, explicitly patch each
+ function by name in the target module instead of inferring
+ the module from the function's ``__module__``. Improves
+ compatibility with other packages that might have previously
+ patched distutils functions (i.e. NumPy).
+
+v27.3.0
+-------
+
+* #794: In test command, add installed eggs to PYTHONPATH
+ when invoking tests so that subprocesses will also have the
+ dependencies available. Fixes `tox 330
+ <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/330>`_.
+
+* #795: Update vendored pyparsing 2.1.9.
+
+v27.2.0
+-------
+
+* #520 and #513: Suppress ValueErrors in fixup_namespace_packages
+ when lookup fails.
+
+* Nicer, more consistent interfaces for msvc monkeypatching.
+
+v27.1.2
+-------
+
+* #779 via #781: Fix circular import.
+
+v27.1.1
+-------
+
+* #778: Fix MSVC monkeypatching.
+
+v27.1.0
+-------
+
+* Introduce the (private) ``monkey`` module to encapsulate
+ the distutils monkeypatching behavior.
+
+v27.0.0
+-------
+
+* Now use Warehouse by default for
+ ``upload``, patching ``distutils.config.PyPIRCCommand`` to
+ affect default behavior.
+
+ Any config in .pypirc should be updated to replace
+
+ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/
+
+ with
+
+ https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
+
+ Similarly, any passwords stored in the keyring should be
+ updated to use this new value for "system".
+
+ The ``upload_docs`` command will continue to use the python.org
+ site, but the command is now deprecated. Users are urged to use
+ Read The Docs instead.
+
+* #776: Use EXT_SUFFIX for py_limited_api renaming.
+
+* #774 and #775: Use LegacyVersion from packaging when
+ detecting numpy versions.
+
+v26.1.1
+-------
+
+* Re-release of 26.1.0 with pytest pinned to allow for automated
+ deployment and thus proper packaging environment variables,
+ fixing issues with missing executable launchers.
+
+v26.1.0
+-------
+
+* #763: ``pkg_resources.get_default_cache`` now defers to the
+ `appdirs project <https://pypi.org/project/appdirs>`_ to
+ resolve the cache directory. Adds a vendored dependency on
+ appdirs to pkg_resources.
+
+v26.0.0
+-------
+
+* #748: By default, sdists are now produced in gzipped tarfile
+ format by default on all platforms, adding forward compatibility
+ for the same behavior in Python 3.6 (See Python #27819).
+
+* #459 via #736: On Windows with script launchers,
+ sys.argv[0] now reflects
+ the name of the entry point, consistent with the behavior in
+ distlib and pip wrappers.
+
+* #752 via #753: When indicating ``py_limited_api`` to Extension,
+ it must be passed as a keyword argument.
+
+v25.4.0
+-------
+
+* Add Extension(py_limited_api=True). When set to a truthy value,
+ that extension gets a filename appropriate for code using Py_LIMITED_API.
+ When used correctly this allows a single compiled extension to work on
+ all future versions of CPython 3.
+ The py_limited_api argument only controls the filename. To be
+ compatible with multiple versions of Python 3, the C extension
+ will also need to set -DPy_LIMITED_API=... and be modified to use
+ only the functions in the limited API.
+
+v25.3.0
+-------
+
+* #739 Fix unquoted libpaths by fixing compatibility between `numpy.distutils` and `distutils._msvccompiler` for numpy < 1.11.2 (Fix issue #728, error also fixed in Numpy).
+
+* #731: Bump certifi.
+
+* Style updates. See #740, #741, #743, #744, #742, #747.
+
+* #735: include license file.
+
+v25.2.0
+-------
+
+* #612 via #730: Add a LICENSE file which needs to be provided by the terms of
+ the MIT license.
+
+v25.1.6
+-------
+
+* #725: revert `library_dir_option` patch (Error is related to `numpy.distutils` and make errors on non Numpy users).
+
+v25.1.5
+-------
+
+* #720
+* #723: Improve patch for `library_dir_option`.
+
+v25.1.4
+-------
+
+* #717
+* #713
+* #707: Fix Python 2 compatibility for MSVC by catching errors properly.
+* #715: Fix unquoted libpaths by patching `library_dir_option`.
+
+v25.1.3
+-------
+
+* #714 and #704: Revert fix as it breaks other components
+ downstream that can't handle unicode. See #709, #710,
+ and #712.
+
+v25.1.2
+-------
+
+* #704: Fix errors when installing a zip sdist that contained
+ files named with non-ascii characters on Windows would
+ crash the install when it attempted to clean up the build.
+* #646: MSVC compatibility - catch errors properly in
+ RegistryInfo.lookup.
+* #702: Prevent UnboundLocalError when initial working_set
+ is empty.
+
+v25.1.1
+-------
+
+* #686: Fix issue in sys.path ordering by pkg_resources when
+ rewrite technique is "raw".
+* #699: Fix typo in msvc support.
+
+v25.1.0
+-------
+
+* #609: Setuptools will now try to download a distribution from
+ the next possible download location if the first download fails.
+ This means you can now specify multiple links as ``dependency_links``
+ and all links will be tried until a working download link is encountered.
+
+v25.0.2
+-------
+
+* #688: Fix AttributeError in setup.py when invoked not from
+ the current directory.
+
+v25.0.1
+-------
+
+* Cleanup of setup.py script.
+
+* Fixed documentation builders by allowing setup.py
+ to be imported without having bootstrapped the
+ metadata.
+
+* More style cleanup. See #677, #678, #679, #681, #685.
+
+v25.0.0
+-------
+
+* #674: Default ``sys.path`` manipulation by easy-install.pth
+ is now "raw", meaning that when writing easy-install.pth
+ during any install operation, the ``sys.path`` will not be
+ rewritten and will no longer give preference to easy_installed
+ packages.
+
+ To retain the old behavior when using any easy_install
+ operation (including ``setup.py install`` when setuptools is
+ present), set the environment variable:
+
+ SETUPTOOLS_SYS_PATH_TECHNIQUE=rewrite
+
+ This project hopes that that few if any environments find it
+ necessary to retain the old behavior, and intends to drop
+ support for it altogether in a future release. Please report
+ any relevant concerns in the ticket for this change.
+
+v24.3.1
+-------
+
+* #398: Fix shebang handling on Windows in script
+ headers where spaces in ``sys.executable`` would
+ produce an improperly-formatted shebang header,
+ introduced in 12.0 with the fix for #188.
+
+* #663, #670: More style updates.
+
+v24.3.0
+-------
+
+* #516: Disable ``os.link`` to avoid hard linking
+ in ``sdist.make_distribution``, avoiding errors on
+ systems that support hard links but not on the
+ file system in which the build is occurring.
+
+v24.2.1
+-------
+
+* #667: Update Metadata-Version to 1.2 when
+ ``python_requires`` is supplied.
+
+v24.2.0
+-------
+
+* #631: Add support for ``python_requires`` keyword.
+
+v24.1.1
+-------
+
+* More style updates. See #660, #661, #641.
+
+v24.1.0
+-------
+
+* #659: ``setup.py`` now will fail fast and with a helpful
+ error message when the necessary metadata is missing.
+* More style updates. See #656, #635, #640,
+ #644, #650, #652, and #655.
+
+v24.0.3
+-------
+
+* Updated style in much of the codebase to match
+ community expectations. See #632, #633, #634,
+ #637, #639, #638, #642, #648.
+
+v24.0.2
+-------
+
+* If MSVC++14 is needed ``setuptools.msvc`` now redirect
+ user to Visual C++ Build Tools web page.
+
+v24.0.1
+-------
+
+* #625 and #626: Fixes on ``setuptools.msvc`` mainly
+ for Python 2 and Linux.
+
+v24.0.0
+-------
+
+* Pull Request #174: Add more aggressive support for
+ standalone Microsoft Visual C++ compilers in
+ msvc9compiler patch.
+ Particularly : Windows SDK 6.1 and 7.0
+ (MSVC++ 9.0), Windows SDK 7.1 (MSVC++ 10.0),
+ Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (MSVC++14)
+* Renamed ``setuptools.msvc9_support`` to
+ ``setuptools.msvc``.
+
+v23.2.1
+-------
+
+Re-release of v23.2.0, which was missing the intended
+commits.
+
+* #623: Remove used of deprecated 'U' flag when reading
+ manifests.
+
+v23.1.0
+-------
+
+* #619: Deprecated ``tag_svn_revision`` distribution
+ option.
+
+v23.0.0
+-------
+
+* #611: Removed ARM executables for CLI and GUI script
+ launchers on Windows. If this was a feature you cared
+ about, please comment in the ticket.
+* #604: Removed docs building support. The project
+ now relies on documentation hosted at
+ https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/.
+
+v22.0.5
+-------
+
+* #604: Restore repository for upload_docs command
+ to restore publishing of docs during release.
+
+v22.0.4
+-------
+
+* #589: Upload releases to pypi.io using the upload
+ hostname and legacy path.
+
+v22.0.3
+-------
+
+* #589: Releases are now uploaded to pypi.io (Warehouse)
+ even when releases are made on Twine via Travis.
+
+v22.0.2
+-------
+
+* #589: Releases are now uploaded to pypi.io (Warehouse).
+
+v22.0.1
+-------
+
+* #190: On Python 2, if unicode is passed for packages to
+ ``build_py`` command, it will be handled just as with
+ text on Python 3.
+
+v22.0.0
+-------
+
+Intended to be v21.3.0, but jaraco accidentally released as
+a major bump.
+
+* #598: Setuptools now lists itself first in the User-Agent
+ for web requests, better following the guidelines in
+ `RFC 7231
+ <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3>`_.
+
+v21.2.2
+-------
+
+* Minor fixes to changelog and docs.
+
+v21.2.1
+-------
+
+* #261: Exclude directories when resolving globs in
+ package_data.
+
+v21.2.0
+-------
+
+* #539: In the easy_install get_site_dirs, honor all
+ paths found in ``site.getsitepackages``.
+
+v21.1.0
+-------
+
+* #572: In build_ext, now always import ``_CONFIG_VARS``
+ from ``distutils`` rather than from ``sysconfig``
+ to allow ``distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler``
+ configure the OS X compiler for ``-dynamiclib``.
+
+v21.0.0
+-------
+
+* Removed ez_setup.py from Setuptools sdist. The
+ bootstrap script will be maintained in its own
+ branch and should be generally be retrieved from
+ its canonical location at
+ https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py.
+
+v20.10.0
+--------
+
+* #553: egg_info section is now generated in a
+ deterministic order, matching the order generated
+ by earlier versions of Python. Except on Python 2.6,
+ order is preserved when existing settings are present.
+* #556: Update to Packaging 16.7, restoring support
+ for deprecated ``python_implmentation`` marker.
+* #555: Upload command now prompts for a password
+ when uploading to PyPI (or other repository) if no
+ password is present in .pypirc or in the keyring.
+
+v20.9.0
+-------
+
+* #548: Update certify version to 2016.2.28
+* #545: Safely handle deletion of non-zip eggs in rotate
+ command.
+
+v20.8.1
+-------
+
+* Issue #544: Fix issue with extra environment marker
+ processing in WorkingSet due to refactor in v20.7.0.
+
+v20.8.0
+-------
+
+* Issue #543: Re-release so that latest release doesn't
+ cause déjà vu with distribute and setuptools 0.7 in
+ older environments.
+
+v20.7.0
+-------
+
+* Refactored extra environment marker processing
+ in WorkingSet.
+* Issue #533: Fixed intermittent test failures.
+* Issue #536: In msvc9_support, trap additional exceptions
+ that might occur when importing
+ ``distutils.msvc9compiler`` in mingw environments.
+* Issue #537: Provide better context when package
+ metadata fails to decode in UTF-8.
+
+v20.6.8
+-------
+
+* Issue #523: Restored support for environment markers,
+ now honoring 'extra' environment markers.
+
+v20.6.7
+-------
+
+* Issue #523: Disabled support for environment markers
+ introduced in v20.5.
+
+v20.6.6
+-------
+
+* Issue #503: Restore support for PEP 345 environment
+ markers by updating to Packaging 16.6.
+
+v20.6.0
+-------
+
+* New release process that relies on
+ `bumpversion <https://github.com/peritus/bumpversion>`_
+ and Travis CI for continuous deployment.
+* Project versioning semantics now follow
+ `semver <https://semver.org>`_ precisely.
+ The 'v' prefix on version numbers now also allows
+ version numbers to be referenced in the changelog,
+ e.g. http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#v20-6-0.
+
+20.5
+----
+
+* BB Pull Request #185, #470: Add support for environment markers
+ in requirements in install_requires, setup_requires,
+ tests_require as well as adding a test for the existing
+ extra_requires machinery.
+
+20.4
+----
+
+* Issue #422: Moved hosting to
+ `Github <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools>`_
+ from `Bitbucket <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools>`_.
+ Issues have been migrated, though all issues and comments
+ are attributed to bb-migration. So if you have a particular
+ issue or issues to which you've been subscribed, you will
+ want to "watch" the equivalent issue in Github.
+ The Bitbucket project will be retained for the indefinite
+ future, but Github now hosts the canonical project repository.
+
+20.3.1
+------
+
+* Issue #519: Remove import hook when reloading the
+ ``pkg_resources`` module.
+* BB Pull Request #184: Update documentation in ``pkg_resources``
+ around new ``Requirement`` implementation.
+
+20.3
+----
+
+* BB Pull Request #179: ``pkg_resources.Requirement`` objects are
+ now a subclass of ``packaging.requirements.Requirement``,
+ allowing any environment markers and url (if any) to be
+ affiliated with the requirement
+* BB Pull Request #179: Restore use of RequirementParseError
+ exception unintentionally dropped in 20.2.
+
+20.2.2
+------
+
+* Issue #502: Correct regression in parsing of multiple
+ version specifiers separated by commas and spaces.
+
+20.2.1
+------
+
+* Issue #499: Restore compatibility for legacy versions
+ by bumping to packaging 16.4.
+
+20.2
+----
+
+* Changelog now includes release dates and links to PEPs.
+* BB Pull Request #173: Replace dual PEP 345 _markerlib implementation
+ and PEP 426 implementation of environment marker support from
+ packaging 16.1 and PEP 508. Fixes Issue #122.
+ See also BB Pull Request #175, BB Pull Request #168, and
+ BB Pull Request #164. Additionally:
+
+ - ``Requirement.parse`` no longer retains the order of extras.
+ - ``parse_requirements`` now requires that all versions be
+ PEP-440 compliant, as revealed in #499. Packages released
+ with invalid local versions should be re-released using
+ the proper local version syntax, e.g. ``mypkg-1.0+myorg.1``.
+
+20.1.1
+------
+
+* Update ``upload_docs`` command to also honor keyring
+ for password resolution.
+
+20.1
+----
+
+* Added support for using passwords from keyring in the upload
+ command. See `the upload docs
+ <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#upload-upload-source-and-or-egg-distributions-to-pypi>`_
+ for details.
+
+20.0
+----
+
+* Issue #118: Once again omit the package metadata (egg-info)
+ from the list of outputs in ``--record``. This version of setuptools
+ can no longer be used to upgrade pip earlier than 6.0.
+
+19.7
+----
+
+* `Off-project PR <https://github.com/jaraco/setuptools/pull/32>`_:
+ For FreeBSD, also honor root certificates from ca_root_nss.
+
+19.6.2
+------
+
+* Issue #491: Correct regression incurred in 19.4 where
+ a double-namespace package installed using pip would
+ cause a TypeError.
+
+19.6.1
+------
+
+* Restore compatibility for PyPy 3 compatibility lost in
+ 19.4.1 addressing Issue #487.
+* ``setuptools.launch`` shim now loads scripts in a new
+ namespace, avoiding getting relative imports from
+ the setuptools package on Python 2.
+
+19.6
+----
+
+* Added a new entry script ``setuptools.launch``,
+ implementing the shim found in
+ ``pip.util.setuptools_build``. Use this command to launch
+ distutils-only packages under setuptools in the same way that
+ pip does, causing the setuptools monkeypatching of distutils
+ to be invoked prior to invoking a script. Useful for debugging
+ or otherwise installing a distutils-only package under
+ setuptools when pip isn't available or otherwise does not
+ expose the desired functionality. For example::
+
+ $ python -m setuptools.launch setup.py develop
+
+* Issue #488: Fix dual manifestation of Extension class in
+ extension packages installed as dependencies when Cython
+ is present.
+
+19.5
+----
+
+* Issue #486: Correct TypeError when getfilesystemencoding
+ returns None.
+* Issue #139: Clarified the license as MIT.
+* BB Pull Request #169: Removed special handling of command
+ spec in scripts for Jython.
+
+19.4.1
+------
+
+* Issue #487: Use direct invocation of ``importlib.machinery``
+ in ``pkg_resources`` to avoid missing detection on relevant
+ platforms.
+
+19.4
+----
+
+* Issue #341: Correct error in path handling of package data
+ files in ``build_py`` command when package is empty.
+* Distribute #323, Issue #141, Issue #207, and
+ BB Pull Request #167: Another implementation of
+ ``pkg_resources.WorkingSet`` and ``pkg_resources.Distribution``
+ that supports replacing an extant package with a new one,
+ allowing for setup_requires dependencies to supersede installed
+ packages for the session.
+
+19.3
+----
+
+* Issue #229: Implement new technique for readily incorporating
+ dependencies conditionally from vendored copies or primary
+ locations. Adds a new dependency on six.
+
+19.2
+----
+
+* BB Pull Request #163: Add get_command_list method to Distribution.
+* BB Pull Request #162: Add missing whitespace to multiline string
+ literals.
+
+19.1.1
+------
+
+* Issue #476: Cast version to string (using default encoding)
+ to avoid creating Unicode types on Python 2 clients.
+* Issue #477: In Powershell downloader, use explicit rendering
+ of strings, rather than rely on ``repr``, which can be
+ incorrect (especially on Python 2).
+
+19.1
+----
+
+* Issue #215: The bootstrap script ``ez_setup.py`` now
+ automatically detects
+ the latest version of setuptools (using PyPI JSON API) rather
+ than hard-coding a particular value.
+* Issue #475: Fix incorrect usage in _translate_metadata2.
+
+19.0
+----
+
+* Issue #442: Use RawConfigParser for parsing .pypirc file.
+ Interpolated values are no longer honored in .pypirc files.
+
+18.8.1
+------
+
+* Issue #440: Prevent infinite recursion when a SandboxViolation
+ or other UnpickleableException occurs in a sandbox context
+ with setuptools hidden. Fixes regression introduced in Setuptools
+ 12.0.
+
+18.8
+----
+
+* Deprecated ``egg_info.get_pkg_info_revision``.
+* Issue #471: Don't rely on repr for an HTML attribute value in
+ package_index.
+* Issue #419: Avoid errors in FileMetadata when the metadata directory
+ is broken.
+* Issue #472: Remove deprecated use of 'U' in mode parameter
+ when opening files.
+
+18.7.1
+------
+
+* Issue #469: Refactored logic for Issue #419 fix to re-use metadata
+ loading from Provider.
+
+18.7
+----
+
+* Update dependency on certify.
+* BB Pull Request #160: Improve detection of gui script in
+ ``easy_install._adjust_header``.
+* Made ``test.test_args`` a non-data property; alternate fix
+ for the issue reported in BB Pull Request #155.
+* Issue #453: In ``ez_setup`` bootstrap module, unload all
+ ``pkg_resources`` modules following download.
+* BB Pull Request #158: Honor PEP-488 when excluding
+ files for namespace packages.
+* Issue #419 and BB Pull Request #144: Add experimental support for
+ reading the version info from distutils-installed metadata rather
+ than using the version in the filename.
+
+18.6.1
+------
+
+* Issue #464: Correct regression in invocation of superclass on old-style
+ class on Python 2.
+
+18.6
+----
+
+* Issue #439: When installing entry_point scripts under development,
+ omit the version number of the package, allowing any version of the
+ package to be used.
+
+18.5
+----
+
+* In preparation for dropping support for Python 3.2, a warning is
+ now logged when pkg_resources is imported on Python 3.2 or earlier
+ Python 3 versions.
+* `Add support for python_platform_implementation environment marker
+ <https://github.com/jaraco/setuptools/pull/28>`_.
+* `Fix dictionary mutation during iteration
+ <https://github.com/jaraco/setuptools/pull/29>`_.
+
+18.4
+----
+
+* Issue #446: Test command now always invokes unittest, even
+ if no test suite is supplied.
+
+18.3.2
+------
+
+* Correct another regression in setuptools.findall
+ where the fix for Python #12885 was lost.
+
+18.3.1
+------
+
+* Issue #425: Correct regression in setuptools.findall.
+
+18.3
+----
+
+* BB Pull Request #135: Setuptools now allows disabling of
+ the manipulation of the sys.path
+ during the processing of the easy-install.pth file. To do so, set
+ the environment variable ``SETUPTOOLS_SYS_PATH_TECHNIQUE`` to
+ anything but "rewrite" (consider "raw"). During any install operation
+ with manipulation disabled, setuptools packages will be appended to
+ sys.path naturally.
+
+ Future versions may change the default behavior to disable
+ manipulation. If so, the default behavior can be retained by setting
+ the variable to "rewrite".
+
+* Issue #257: ``easy_install --version`` now shows more detail
+ about the installation location and Python version.
+
+* Refactor setuptools.findall in preparation for re-submission
+ back to distutils.
+
+18.2
+----
+
+* Issue #412: More efficient directory search in ``find_packages``.
+
+18.1
+----
+
+* Upgrade to vendored packaging 15.3.
+
+18.0.1
+------
+
+* Issue #401: Fix failure in test suite.
+
+18.0
+----
+
+* Dropped support for builds with Pyrex. Only Cython is supported.
+* Issue #288: Detect Cython later in the build process, after
+ ``setup_requires`` dependencies are resolved.
+ Projects backed by Cython can now be readily built
+ with a ``setup_requires`` dependency. For example::
+
+ ext = setuptools.Extension('mylib', ['src/CythonStuff.pyx', 'src/CStuff.c'])
+ setuptools.setup(
+ ...
+ ext_modules=[ext],
+ setup_requires=['cython'],
+ )
+
+ For compatibility with older versions of setuptools, packagers should
+ still include ``src/CythonMod.c`` in the source distributions or
+ require that Cython be present before building source distributions.
+ However, for systems with this build of setuptools, Cython will be
+ downloaded on demand.
+* Issue #396: Fixed test failure on OS X.
+* BB Pull Request #136: Remove excessive quoting from shebang headers
+ for Jython.
+
+17.1.1
+------
+
+* Backed out unintended changes to pkg_resources, restoring removal of
+ deprecated imp module (`ref
+ <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/commits/f572ec9563d647fa8d4ffc534f2af8070ea07a8b#comment-1881283>`_).
+
+17.1
+----
+
+* Issue #380: Add support for range operators on environment
+ marker evaluation.
+
+17.0
+----
+
+* Issue #378: Do not use internal importlib._bootstrap module.
+* Issue #390: Disallow console scripts with path separators in
+ the name. Removes unintended functionality and brings behavior
+ into parity with pip.
+
+16.0
+----
+
+* BB Pull Request #130: Better error messages for errors in
+ parsed requirements.
+* BB Pull Request #133: Removed ``setuptools.tests`` from the
+ installed packages.
+* BB Pull Request #129: Address deprecation warning due to usage
+ of imp module.
+
+15.2
+----
+
+* Issue #373: Provisionally expose
+ ``pkg_resources._initialize_master_working_set``, allowing for
+ imperative re-initialization of the master working set.
+
+15.1
+----
+
+* Updated to Packaging 15.1 to address Packaging #28.
+* Fix ``setuptools.sandbox._execfile()`` with Python 3.1.
+
+15.0
+----
+
+* BB Pull Request #126: DistributionNotFound message now lists the package or
+ packages that required it. E.g.::
+
+ pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'colorama>=0.3.1' distribution was not found and is required by smlib.log.
+
+ Note that zc.buildout once dependended on the string rendering of this
+ message to determine the package that was not found. This expectation
+ has since been changed, but older versions of buildout may experience
+ problems. See Buildout #242 for details.
+
+14.3.1
+------
+
+* Issue #307: Removed PEP-440 warning during parsing of versions
+ in ``pkg_resources.Distribution``.
+* Issue #364: Replace deprecated usage with recommended usage of
+ ``EntryPoint.load``.
+
+14.3
+----
+
+* Issue #254: When creating temporary egg cache on Unix, use mode 755
+ for creating the directory to avoid the subsequent warning if
+ the directory is group writable.
+
+14.2
+----
+
+* Issue #137: Update ``Distribution.hashcmp`` so that Distributions with
+ None for pyversion or platform can be compared against Distributions
+ defining those attributes.
+
+14.1.1
+------
+
+* Issue #360: Removed undesirable behavior from test runs, preventing
+ write tests and installation to system site packages.
+
+14.1
+----
+
+* BB Pull Request #125: Add ``__ne__`` to Requirement class.
+* Various refactoring of easy_install.
+
+14.0
+----
+
+* Bootstrap script now accepts ``--to-dir`` to customize save directory or
+ allow for re-use of existing repository of setuptools versions. See
+ BB Pull Request #112 for background.
+* Issue #285: ``easy_install`` no longer will default to installing
+ packages to the "user site packages" directory if it is itself installed
+ there. Instead, the user must pass ``--user`` in all cases to install
+ packages to the user site packages.
+ This behavior now matches that of "pip install". To configure
+ an environment to always install to the user site packages, consider
+ using the "install-dir" and "scripts-dir" parameters to easy_install
+ through an appropriate distutils config file.
+
+13.0.2
+------
+
+* Issue #359: Include pytest.ini in the sdist so invocation of py.test on the
+ sdist honors the pytest configuration.
+
+13.0.1
+------
+
+Re-release of 13.0. Intermittent connectivity issues caused the release
+process to fail and PyPI uploads no longer accept files for 13.0.
+
+13.0
+----
+
+* Issue #356: Back out BB Pull Request #119 as it requires Setuptools 10 or later
+ as the source during an upgrade.
+* Removed build_py class from setup.py. According to 892f439d216e, this
+ functionality was added to support upgrades from old Distribute versions,
+ 0.6.5 and 0.6.6.
+
+12.4
+----
+
+* BB Pull Request #119: Restore writing of ``setup_requires`` to metadata
+ (previously added in 8.4 and removed in 9.0).
+
+12.3
+----
+
+* Documentation is now linked using the rst.linker package.
+* Fix ``setuptools.command.easy_install.extract_wininst_cfg()``
+ with Python 2.6 and 2.7.
+* Issue #354. Added documentation on building setuptools
+ documentation.
+
+12.2
+----
+
+* Issue #345: Unload all modules under pkg_resources during
+ ``ez_setup.use_setuptools()``.
+* Issue #336: Removed deprecation from ``ez_setup.use_setuptools``,
+ as it is clearly still used by buildout's bootstrap. ``ez_setup``
+ remains deprecated for use by individual packages.
+* Simplified implementation of ``ez_setup.use_setuptools``.
+
+12.1
+----
+
+* BB Pull Request #118: Soften warning for non-normalized versions in
+ Distribution.
+
+12.0.5
+------
+
+* Issue #339: Correct Attribute reference in ``cant_write_to_target``.
+* Issue #336: Deprecated ``ez_setup.use_setuptools``.
+
+12.0.4
+------
+
+* Issue #335: Fix script header generation on Windows.
+
+12.0.3
+------
+
+* Fixed incorrect class attribute in ``install_scripts``. Tests would be nice.
+
+12.0.2
+------
+
+* Issue #331: Fixed ``install_scripts`` command on Windows systems corrupting
+ the header.
+
+12.0.1
+------
+
+* Restore ``setuptools.command.easy_install.sys_executable`` for pbr
+ compatibility. For the future, tools should construct a CommandSpec
+ explicitly.
+
+12.0
+----
+
+* Issue #188: Setuptools now support multiple entities in the value for
+ ``build.executable``, such that an executable of "/usr/bin/env my-python" may
+ be specified. This means that systems with a specified executable whose name
+ has spaces in the path must be updated to escape or quote that value.
+* Deprecated ``easy_install.ScriptWriter.get_writer``, replaced by ``.best()``
+ with slightly different semantics (no force_windows flag).
+
+11.3.1
+------
+
+* Issue #327: Formalize and restore support for any printable character in an
+ entry point name.
+
+11.3
+----
+
+* Expose ``EntryPoint.resolve`` in place of EntryPoint._load, implementing the
+ simple, non-requiring load. Deprecated all uses of ``EntryPoint._load``
+ except for calling with no parameters, which is just a shortcut for
+ ``ep.require(); ep.resolve();``.
+
+ Apps currently invoking ``ep.load(require=False)`` should instead do the
+ following if wanting to avoid the deprecating warning::
+
+ getattr(ep, "resolve", lambda: ep.load(require=False))()
+
+11.2
+----
+
+* Pip #2326: Report deprecation warning at stacklevel 2 for easier diagnosis.
+
+11.1
+----
+
+* Issue #281: Since Setuptools 6.1 (Issue #268), a ValueError would be raised
+ in certain cases where VersionConflict was raised with two arguments, which
+ occurred in ``pkg_resources.WorkingSet.find``. This release adds support
+ for indicating the dependent packages while maintaining support for
+ a VersionConflict when no dependent package context is known. New unit tests
+ now capture the expected interface.
+
+11.0
+----
+
+* Interop #3: Upgrade to Packaging 15.0; updates to PEP 440 so that >1.7 does
+ not exclude 1.7.1 but does exclude 1.7.0 and 1.7.0.post1.
+
+10.2.1
+------
+
+* Issue #323: Fix regression in entry point name parsing.
+
+10.2
+----
+
+* Deprecated use of EntryPoint.load(require=False). Passing a boolean to a
+ function to select behavior is an anti-pattern. Instead use
+ ``Entrypoint._load()``.
+* Substantial refactoring of all unit tests. Tests are now much leaner and
+ re-use a lot of fixtures and contexts for better clarity of purpose.
+
+10.1
+----
+
+* Issue #320: Added a compatibility implementation of
+ ``sdist._default_revctrl``
+ so that systems relying on that interface do not fail (namely, Ubuntu 12.04
+ and similar Debian releases).
+
+10.0.1
+------
+
+* Issue #319: Fixed issue installing pure distutils packages.
+
+10.0
+----
+
+* Issue #313: Removed built-in support for subversion. Projects wishing to
+ retain support for subversion will need to use a third party library. The
+ extant implementation is being ported to `setuptools_svn
+ <https://pypi.org/project/setuptools_svn/>`_.
+* Issue #315: Updated setuptools to hide its own loaded modules during
+ installation of another package. This change will enable setuptools to
+ upgrade (or downgrade) itself even when its own metadata and implementation
+ change.
+
+9.1
+---
+
+* Prefer vendored packaging library `as recommended
+ <https://github.com/jaraco/setuptools/commit/170657b68f4b92e7e1bf82f5e19a831f5744af67#commitcomment-9109448>`_.
+
+9.0.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #312: Restored presence of pkg_resources API tests (doctest) to sdist.
+
+9.0
+---
+
+* Issue #314: Disabled support for ``setup_requires`` metadata to avoid issue
+ where Setuptools was unable to upgrade over earlier versions.
+
+8.4
+---
+
+* BB Pull Request #106: Now write ``setup_requires`` metadata.
+
+8.3
+---
+
+* Issue #311: Decoupled pkg_resources from setuptools once again.
+ ``pkg_resources`` is now a package instead of a module.
+
+8.2.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #306: Suppress warnings about Version format except in select scenarios
+ (such as installation).
+
+8.2
+---
+
+* BB Pull Request #85: Search egg-base when adding egg-info to manifest.
+
+8.1
+---
+
+* Upgrade ``packaging`` to 14.5, giving preference to "rc" as designator for
+ release candidates over "c".
+* PEP-440 warnings are now raised as their own class,
+ ``pkg_resources.PEP440Warning``, instead of RuntimeWarning.
+* Disabled warnings on empty versions.
+
+8.0.4
+-----
+
+* Upgrade ``packaging`` to 14.4, fixing an error where there is a
+ different result for if 2.0.5 is contained within >2.0dev and >2.0.dev even
+ though normalization rules should have made them equal.
+* Issue #296: Add warning when a version is parsed as legacy. This warning will
+ make it easier for developers to recognize deprecated version numbers.
+
+8.0.3
+-----
+
+* Issue #296: Restored support for ``__hash__`` on parse_version results.
+
+8.0.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #296: Restored support for ``__getitem__`` and sort operations on
+ parse_version result.
+
+8.0.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #296: Restore support for iteration over parse_version result, but
+ deprecated that usage with a warning. Fixes failure with buildout.
+
+8.0
+---
+
+* Implement PEP 440 within
+ pkg_resources and setuptools. This change
+ deprecates some version numbers such that they will no longer be installable
+ without using the ``===`` escape hatch. See `the changes to test_resources
+ <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/commits/dcd552da643c4448056de84c73d56da6d70769d5#chg-setuptools/tests/test_resources.py>`_
+ for specific examples of version numbers and specifiers that are no longer
+ supported. Setuptools now "vendors" the `packaging
+ <https://github.com/pypa/packaging>`_ library.
+
+7.0
+---
+
+* Issue #80, Issue #209: Eggs that are downloaded for ``setup_requires``,
+ ``test_requires``, etc. are now placed in a ``./.eggs`` directory instead of
+ directly in the current directory. This choice of location means the files
+ can be readily managed (removed, ignored). Additionally,
+ later phases or invocations of setuptools will not detect the package as
+ already installed and ignore it for permanent install (See #209).
+
+ This change is indicated as backward-incompatible as installations that
+ depend on the installation in the current directory will need to account for
+ the new location. Systems that ignore ``*.egg`` will probably need to be
+ adapted to ignore ``.eggs``. The files will need to be manually moved or
+ will be retrieved again. Most use cases will require no attention.
+
+6.1
+---
+
+* Issue #268: When resolving package versions, a VersionConflict now reports
+ which package previously required the conflicting version.
+
+6.0.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #262: Fixed regression in pip install due to egg-info directories
+ being omitted. Re-opens Issue #118.
+
+6.0.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #259: Fixed regression with namespace package handling on ``single
+ version, externally managed`` installs.
+
+6.0
+---
+
+* Issue #100: When building a distribution, Setuptools will no longer match
+ default files using platform-dependent case sensitivity, but rather will
+ only match the files if their case matches exactly. As a result, on Windows
+ and other case-insensitive file systems, files with names such as
+ 'readme.txt' or 'README.TXT' will be omitted from the distribution and a
+ warning will be issued indicating that 'README.txt' was not found. Other
+ filenames affected are:
+
+ - README.rst
+ - README
+ - setup.cfg
+ - setup.py (or the script name)
+ - test/test*.py
+
+ Any users producing distributions with filenames that match those above
+ case-insensitively, but not case-sensitively, should rename those files in
+ their repository for better portability.
+* BB Pull Request #72: When using ``single_version_externally_managed``, the
+ exclusion list now includes Python 3.2 ``__pycache__`` entries.
+* BB Pull Request #76 and BB Pull Request #78: lines in top_level.txt are now
+ ordered deterministically.
+* Issue #118: The egg-info directory is now no longer included in the list
+ of outputs.
+* Issue #258: Setuptools now patches distutils msvc9compiler to
+ recognize the specially-packaged compiler package for easy extension module
+ support on Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2.
+
+5.8
+---
+
+* Issue #237: ``pkg_resources`` now uses explicit detection of Python 2 vs.
+ Python 3, supporting environments where builtins have been patched to make
+ Python 3 look more like Python 2.
+
+5.7
+---
+
+* Issue #240: Based on real-world performance measures against 5.4, zip
+ manifests are now cached in all circumstances. The
+ ``PKG_RESOURCES_CACHE_ZIP_MANIFESTS`` environment variable is no longer
+ relevant. The observed "memory increase" referenced in the 5.4 release
+ notes and detailed in Issue #154 was likely not an increase over the status
+ quo, but rather only an increase over not storing the zip info at all.
+
+5.6
+---
+
+* Issue #242: Use absolute imports in svn_utils to avoid issues if the
+ installing package adds an xml module to the path.
+
+5.5.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #239: Fix typo in 5.5 such that fix did not take.
+
+5.5
+---
+
+* Issue #239: Setuptools now includes the setup_requires directive on
+ Distribution objects and validates the syntax just like install_requires
+ and tests_require directives.
+
+5.4.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #236: Corrected regression in execfile implementation for Python 2.6.
+
+5.4.1
+-----
+
+* Python #7776: (ssl_support) Correct usage of host for validation when
+ tunneling for HTTPS.
+
+5.4
+---
+
+* Issue #154: ``pkg_resources`` will now cache the zip manifests rather than
+ re-processing the same file from disk multiple times, but only if the
+ environment variable ``PKG_RESOURCES_CACHE_ZIP_MANIFESTS`` is set. Clients
+ that package many modules in the same zip file will see some improvement
+ in startup time by enabling this feature. This feature is not enabled by
+ default because it causes a substantial increase in memory usage.
+
+5.3
+---
+
+* Issue #185: Make svn tagging work on the new style SVN metadata.
+ Thanks cazabon!
+* Prune revision control directories (e.g .svn) from base path
+ as well as sub-directories.
+
+5.2
+---
+
+* Added a `Developer Guide
+ <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer-guide.html>`_ to the official
+ documentation.
+* Some code refactoring and cleanup was done with no intended behavioral
+ changes.
+* During install_egg_info, the generated lines for namespace package .pth
+ files are now processed even during a dry run.
+
+5.1
+---
+
+* Issue #202: Implemented more robust cache invalidation for the ZipImporter,
+ building on the work in Issue #168. Special thanks to Jurko Gospodnetic and
+ PJE.
+
+5.0.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #220: Restored script templates.
+
+5.0.1
+-----
+
+* Renamed script templates to end with .tmpl now that they no longer need
+ to be processed by 2to3. Fixes spurious syntax errors during build/install.
+
+5.0
+---
+
+* Issue #218: Re-release of 3.8.1 to signal that it supersedes 4.x.
+* Incidentally, script templates were updated not to include the triple-quote
+ escaping.
+
+3.7.1 and 3.8.1 and 4.0.1
+-------------------------
+
+* Issue #213: Use legacy StringIO behavior for compatibility under pbr.
+* Issue #218: Setuptools 3.8.1 superseded 4.0.1, and 4.x was removed
+ from the available versions to install.
+
+4.0
+---
+
+* Issue #210: ``setup.py develop`` now copies scripts in binary mode rather
+ than text mode, matching the behavior of the ``install`` command.
+
+3.8
+---
+
+* Extend Issue #197 workaround to include all Python 3 versions prior to
+ 3.2.2.
+
+3.7
+---
+
+* Issue #193: Improved handling of Unicode filenames when building manifests.
+
+3.6
+---
+
+* Issue #203: Honor proxy settings for Powershell downloader in the bootstrap
+ routine.
+
+3.5.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #168: More robust handling of replaced zip files and stale caches.
+ Fixes ZipImportError complaining about a 'bad local header'.
+
+3.5.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #199: Restored ``install._install`` for compatibility with earlier
+ NumPy versions.
+
+3.5
+---
+
+* Issue #195: Follow symbolic links in find_packages (restoring behavior
+ broken in 3.4).
+* Issue #197: On Python 3.1, PKG-INFO is now saved in a UTF-8 encoding instead
+ of ``sys.getpreferredencoding`` to match the behavior on Python 2.6-3.4.
+* Issue #192: Preferred bootstrap location is now
+ https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py (mirrored from former location).
+
+3.4.4
+-----
+
+* Issue #184: Correct failure where find_package over-matched packages
+ when directory traversal isn't short-circuited.
+
+3.4.3
+-----
+
+* Issue #183: Really fix test command with Python 3.1.
+
+3.4.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #183: Fix additional regression in test command on Python 3.1.
+
+3.4.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #180: Fix regression in test command not caught by py.test-run tests.
+
+3.4
+---
+
+* Issue #176: Add parameter to the test command to support a custom test
+ runner: --test-runner or -r.
+* Issue #177: Now assume most common invocation to install command on
+ platforms/environments without stack support (issuing a warning). Setuptools
+ now installs naturally on IronPython. Behavior on CPython should be
+ unchanged.
+
+3.3
+---
+
+* Add ``include`` parameter to ``setuptools.find_packages()``.
+
+3.2
+---
+
+* BB Pull Request #39: Add support for C++ targets from Cython ``.pyx`` files.
+* Issue #162: Update dependency on certifi to 1.0.1.
+* Issue #164: Update dependency on wincertstore to 0.2.
+
+3.1
+---
+
+* Issue #161: Restore Features functionality to allow backward compatibility
+ (for Features) until the uses of that functionality is sufficiently removed.
+
+3.0.2
+-----
+
+* Correct typo in previous bugfix.
+
+3.0.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #157: Restore support for Python 2.6 in bootstrap script where
+ ``zipfile.ZipFile`` does not yet have support for context managers.
+
+3.0
+---
+
+* Issue #125: Prevent Subversion support from creating a ~/.subversion
+ directory just for checking the presence of a Subversion repository.
+* Issue #12: Namespace packages are now imported lazily. That is, the mere
+ declaration of a namespace package in an egg on ``sys.path`` no longer
+ causes it to be imported when ``pkg_resources`` is imported. Note that this
+ change means that all of a namespace package's ``__init__.py`` files must
+ include a ``declare_namespace()`` call in order to ensure that they will be
+ handled properly at runtime. In 2.x it was possible to get away without
+ including the declaration, but only at the cost of forcing namespace
+ packages to be imported early, which 3.0 no longer does.
+* Issue #148: When building (bdist_egg), setuptools no longer adds
+ ``__init__.py`` files to namespace packages. Any packages that rely on this
+ behavior will need to create ``__init__.py`` files and include the
+ ``declare_namespace()``.
+* Issue #7: Setuptools itself is now distributed as a zip archive in addition to
+ tar archive. ez_setup.py now uses zip archive. This approach avoids the potential
+ security vulnerabilities presented by use of tar archives in ez_setup.py.
+ It also leverages the security features added to ZipFile.extract in Python 2.7.4.
+* Issue #65: Removed deprecated Features functionality.
+* BB Pull Request #28: Remove backport of ``_bytecode_filenames`` which is
+ available in Python 2.6 and later, but also has better compatibility with
+ Python 3 environments.
+* Issue #156: Fix spelling of __PYVENV_LAUNCHER__ variable.
+
+2.2
+---
+
+* Issue #141: Restored fix for allowing setup_requires dependencies to
+ override installed dependencies during setup.
+* Issue #128: Fixed issue where only the first dependency link was honored
+ in a distribution where multiple dependency links were supplied.
+
+2.1.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #144: Read long_description using codecs module to avoid errors
+ installing on systems where LANG=C.
+
+2.1.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #139: Fix regression in re_finder for CVS repos (and maybe Git repos
+ as well).
+
+2.1
+---
+
+* Issue #129: Suppress inspection of ``*.whl`` files when searching for files
+ in a zip-imported file.
+* Issue #131: Fix RuntimeError when constructing an egg fetcher.
+
+2.0.2
+-----
+
+* Fix NameError during installation with Python implementations (e.g. Jython)
+ not containing parser module.
+* Fix NameError in ``sdist:re_finder``.
+
+2.0.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #124: Fixed error in list detection in upload_docs.
+
+2.0
+---
+
+* Issue #121: Exempt lib2to3 pickled grammars from DirectorySandbox.
+* Issue #41: Dropped support for Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. Clients requiring
+ setuptools for those versions of Python should use setuptools 1.x.
+* Removed ``setuptools.command.easy_install.HAS_USER_SITE``. Clients
+ expecting this boolean variable should use ``site.ENABLE_USER_SITE``
+ instead.
+* Removed ``pkg_resources.ImpWrapper``. Clients that expected this class
+ should use ``pkgutil.ImpImporter`` instead.
+
+1.4.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #116: Correct TypeError when reading a local package index on Python
+ 3.
+
+1.4.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #114: Use ``sys.getfilesystemencoding`` for decoding config in
+ ``bdist_wininst`` distributions.
+
+* Issue #105 and Issue #113: Establish a more robust technique for
+ determining the terminal encoding::
+
+ 1. Try ``getpreferredencoding``
+ 2. If that returns US_ASCII or None, try the encoding from
+ ``getdefaultlocale``. If that encoding was a "fallback" because Python
+ could not figure it out from the environment or OS, encoding remains
+ unresolved.
+ 3. If the encoding is resolved, then make sure Python actually implements
+ the encoding.
+ 4. On the event of an error or unknown codec, revert to fallbacks
+ (UTF-8 on Darwin, ASCII on everything else).
+ 5. On the encoding is 'mac-roman' on Darwin, use UTF-8 as 'mac-roman' was
+ a bug on older Python releases.
+
+ On a side note, it would seem that the encoding only matters for when SVN
+ does not yet support ``--xml`` and when getting repository and svn version
+ numbers. The ``--xml`` technique should yield UTF-8 according to some
+ messages on the SVN mailing lists. So if the version numbers are always
+ 7-bit ASCII clean, it may be best to only support the file parsing methods
+ for legacy SVN releases and support for SVN without the subprocess command
+ would simple go away as support for the older SVNs does.
+
+1.4
+---
+
+* Issue #27: ``easy_install`` will now use credentials from .pypirc if
+ present for connecting to the package index.
+* BB Pull Request #21: Omit unwanted newlines in ``package_index._encode_auth``
+ when the username/password pair length indicates wrapping.
+
+1.3.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #99: Fix filename encoding issues in SVN support.
+
+1.3.1
+-----
+
+* Remove exuberant warning in SVN support when SVN is not used.
+
+1.3
+---
+
+* Address security vulnerability in SSL match_hostname check as reported in
+ Python #17997.
+* Prefer `backports.ssl_match_hostname
+ <https://pypi.org/project/backports.ssl_match_hostname/>`_ for backport
+ implementation if present.
+* Correct NameError in ``ssl_support`` module (``socket.error``).
+
+1.2
+---
+
+* Issue #26: Add support for SVN 1.7. Special thanks to Philip Thiem for the
+ contribution.
+* Issue #93: Wheels are now distributed with every release. Note that as
+ reported in Issue #108, as of Pip 1.4, scripts aren't installed properly
+ from wheels. Therefore, if using Pip to install setuptools from a wheel,
+ the ``easy_install`` command will not be available.
+* Setuptools "natural" launcher support, introduced in 1.0, is now officially
+ supported.
+
+1.1.7
+-----
+
+* Fixed behavior of NameError handling in 'script template (dev).py' (script
+ launcher for 'develop' installs).
+* ``ez_setup.py`` now ensures partial downloads are cleaned up following
+ a failed download.
+* Distribute #363 and Issue #55: Skip an sdist test that fails on locales
+ other than UTF-8.
+
+1.1.6
+-----
+
+* Distribute #349: ``sandbox.execfile`` now opens the target file in binary
+ mode, thus honoring a BOM in the file when compiled.
+
+1.1.5
+-----
+
+* Issue #69: Second attempt at fix (logic was reversed).
+
+1.1.4
+-----
+
+* Issue #77: Fix error in upload command (Python 2.4).
+
+1.1.3
+-----
+
+* Fix NameError in previous patch.
+
+1.1.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #69: Correct issue where 404 errors are returned for URLs with
+ fragments in them (such as #egg=).
+
+1.1.1
+-----
+
+* Issue #75: Add ``--insecure`` option to ez_setup.py to accommodate
+ environments where a trusted SSL connection cannot be validated.
+* Issue #76: Fix AttributeError in upload command with Python 2.4.
+
+1.1
+---
+
+* Issue #71 (Distribute #333): EasyInstall now puts less emphasis on the
+ condition when a host is blocked via ``--allow-hosts``.
+* Issue #72: Restored Python 2.4 compatibility in ``ez_setup.py``.
+
+1.0
+---
+
+* Issue #60: On Windows, Setuptools supports deferring to another launcher,
+ such as Vinay Sajip's `pylauncher <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pylauncher>`_
+ (included with Python 3.3) to launch console and GUI scripts and not install
+ its own launcher executables. This experimental functionality is currently
+ only enabled if the ``SETUPTOOLS_LAUNCHER`` environment variable is set to
+ "natural". In the future, this behavior may become default, but only after
+ it has matured and seen substantial adoption. The ``SETUPTOOLS_LAUNCHER``
+ also accepts "executable" to force the default behavior of creating launcher
+ executables.
+* Issue #63: Bootstrap script (ez_setup.py) now prefers Powershell, curl, or
+ wget for retrieving the Setuptools tarball for improved security of the
+ install. The script will still fall back to a simple ``urlopen`` on
+ platforms that do not have these tools.
+* Issue #65: Deprecated the ``Features`` functionality.
+* Issue #52: In ``VerifyingHTTPSConn``, handle a tunnelled (proxied)
+ connection.
+
+Backward-Incompatible Changes
+=============================
+
+This release includes a couple of backward-incompatible changes, but most if
+not all users will find 1.0 a drop-in replacement for 0.9.
+
+* Issue #50: Normalized API of environment marker support. Specifically,
+ removed line number and filename from SyntaxErrors when returned from
+ `pkg_resources.invalid_marker`. Any clients depending on the specific
+ string representation of exceptions returned by that function may need to
+ be updated to account for this change.
+* Issue #50: SyntaxErrors generated by `pkg_resources.invalid_marker` are
+ normalized for cross-implementation consistency.
+* Removed ``--ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk`` and ``--delete-conflicting``
+ options to easy_install. These options have been deprecated since 0.6a11.
+
+0.9.8
+-----
+
+* Issue #53: Fix NameErrors in `_vcs_split_rev_from_url`.
+
+0.9.7
+-----
+
+* Issue #49: Correct AttributeError on PyPy where a hashlib.HASH object does
+ not have a `.name` attribute.
+* Issue #34: Documentation now refers to bootstrap script in code repository
+ referenced by bookmark.
+* Add underscore-separated keys to environment markers (markerlib).
+
+0.9.6
+-----
+
+* Issue #44: Test failure on Python 2.4 when MD5 hash doesn't have a `.name`
+ attribute.
+
+0.9.5
+-----
+
+* Python #17980: Fix security vulnerability in SSL certificate validation.
+
+0.9.4
+-----
+
+* Issue #43: Fix issue (introduced in 0.9.1) with version resolution when
+ upgrading over other releases of Setuptools.
+
+0.9.3
+-----
+
+* Issue #42: Fix new ``AttributeError`` introduced in last fix.
+
+0.9.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #42: Fix regression where blank checksums would trigger an
+ ``AttributeError``.
+
+0.9.1
+-----
+
+* Distribute #386: Allow other positional and keyword arguments to os.open.
+* Corrected dependency on certifi mis-referenced in 0.9.
+
+0.9
+---
+
+* `package_index` now validates hashes other than MD5 in download links.
+
+0.8
+---
+
+* Code base now runs on Python 2.4 - Python 3.3 without Python 2to3
+ conversion.
+
+0.7.8
+-----
+
+* Distribute #375: Yet another fix for yet another regression.
+
+0.7.7
+-----
+
+* Distribute #375: Repair AttributeError created in last release (redo).
+* Issue #30: Added test for get_cache_path.
+
+0.7.6
+-----
+
+* Distribute #375: Repair AttributeError created in last release.
+
+0.7.5
+-----
+
+* Issue #21: Restore Python 2.4 compatibility in ``test_easy_install``.
+* Distribute #375: Merged additional warning from Distribute 0.6.46.
+* Now honor the environment variable
+ ``SETUPTOOLS_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT`` in addition to the now
+ deprecated ``DISTRIBUTE_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT``.
+
+0.7.4
+-----
+
+* Issue #20: Fix comparison of parsed SVN version on Python 3.
+
+0.7.3
+-----
+
+* Issue #1: Disable installation of Windows-specific files on non-Windows systems.
+* Use new sysconfig module with Python 2.7 or >=3.2.
+
+0.7.2
+-----
+
+* Issue #14: Use markerlib when the `parser` module is not available.
+* Issue #10: ``ez_setup.py`` now uses HTTPS to download setuptools from PyPI.
+
+0.7.1
+-----
+
+* Fix NameError (Issue #3) again - broken in bad merge.
+
+0.7
+---
+
+* Merged Setuptools and Distribute. See docs/merge.txt for details.
+
+Added several features that were slated for setuptools 0.6c12:
+
+* Index URL now defaults to HTTPS.
+* Added experimental environment marker support. Now clients may designate a
+ PEP-426 environment marker for "extra" dependencies. Setuptools uses this
+ feature in ``setup.py`` for optional SSL and certificate validation support
+ on older platforms. Based on Distutils-SIG discussions, the syntax is
+ somewhat tentative. There should probably be a PEP with a firmer spec before
+ the feature should be considered suitable for use.
+* Added support for SSL certificate validation when installing packages from
+ an HTTPS service.
+
+0.7b4
+-----
+
+* Issue #3: Fixed NameError in SSL support.
+
+0.6.49
+------
+
+* Move warning check in ``get_cache_path`` to follow the directory creation
+ to avoid errors when the cache path does not yet exist. Fixes the error
+ reported in Distribute #375.
+
+0.6.48
+------
+
+* Correct AttributeError in ``ResourceManager.get_cache_path`` introduced in
+ 0.6.46 (redo).
+
+0.6.47
+------
+
+* Correct AttributeError in ``ResourceManager.get_cache_path`` introduced in
+ 0.6.46.
+
+0.6.46
+------
+
+* Distribute #375: Issue a warning if the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE or otherwise
+ customized egg cache location specifies a directory that's group- or
+ world-writable.
+
+0.6.45
+------
+
+* Distribute #379: ``distribute_setup.py`` now traps VersionConflict as well,
+ restoring ability to upgrade from an older setuptools version.
+
+0.6.44
+------
+
+* ``distribute_setup.py`` has been updated to allow Setuptools 0.7 to
+ satisfy use_setuptools.
+
+0.6.43
+------
+
+* Distribute #378: Restore support for Python 2.4 Syntax (regression in 0.6.42).
+
+0.6.42
+------
+
+* External links finder no longer yields duplicate links.
+* Distribute #337: Moved site.py to setuptools/site-patch.py (graft of very old
+ patch from setuptools trunk which inspired PR #31).
+
+0.6.41
+------
+
+* Distribute #27: Use public api for loading resources from zip files rather than
+ the private method `_zip_directory_cache`.
+* Added a new function ``easy_install.get_win_launcher`` which may be used by
+ third-party libraries such as buildout to get a suitable script launcher.
+
+0.6.40
+------
+
+* Distribute #376: brought back cli.exe and gui.exe that were deleted in the
+ previous release.
+
+0.6.39
+------
+
+* Add support for console launchers on ARM platforms.
+* Fix possible issue in GUI launchers where the subsystem was not supplied to
+ the linker.
+* Launcher build script now refactored for robustness.
+* Distribute #375: Resources extracted from a zip egg to the file system now also
+ check the contents of the file against the zip contents during each
+ invocation of get_resource_filename.
+
+0.6.38
+------
+
+* Distribute #371: The launcher manifest file is now installed properly.
+
+0.6.37
+------
+
+* Distribute #143: Launcher scripts, including easy_install itself, are now
+ accompanied by a manifest on 32-bit Windows environments to avoid the
+ Installer Detection Technology and thus undesirable UAC elevation described
+ in `this Microsoft article
+ <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709628%28WS.10%29.aspx>`_.
+
+0.6.36
+------
+
+* BB Pull Request #35: In Buildout #64, it was reported that
+ under Python 3, installation of distutils scripts could attempt to copy
+ the ``__pycache__`` directory as a file, causing an error, apparently only
+ under Windows. Easy_install now skips all directories when processing
+ metadata scripts.
+
+0.6.35
+------
+
+
+Note this release is backward-incompatible with distribute 0.6.23-0.6.34 in
+how it parses version numbers.
+
+* Distribute #278: Restored compatibility with distribute 0.6.22 and setuptools
+ 0.6. Updated the documentation to match more closely with the version
+ parsing as intended in setuptools 0.6.
+
+0.6.34
+------
+
+* Distribute #341: 0.6.33 fails to build under Python 2.4.
+
+0.6.33
+------
+
+* Fix 2 errors with Jython 2.5.
+* Fix 1 failure with Jython 2.5 and 2.7.
+* Disable workaround for Jython scripts on Linux systems.
+* Distribute #336: `setup.py` no longer masks failure exit code when tests fail.
+* Fix issue in pkg_resources where try/except around a platform-dependent
+ import would trigger hook load failures on Mercurial. See pull request 32
+ for details.
+* Distribute #341: Fix a ResourceWarning.
+
+0.6.32
+------
+
+* Fix test suite with Python 2.6.
+* Fix some DeprecationWarnings and ResourceWarnings.
+* Distribute #335: Backed out `setup_requires` superceding installed requirements
+ until regression can be addressed.
+
+0.6.31
+------
+
+* Distribute #303: Make sure the manifest only ever contains UTF-8 in Python 3.
+* Distribute #329: Properly close files created by tests for compatibility with
+ Jython.
+* Work around Jython #1980 and Jython #1981.
+* Distribute #334: Provide workaround for packages that reference `sys.__stdout__`
+ such as numpy does. This change should address
+ `virtualenv #359 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/359>`_ as long
+ as the system encoding is UTF-8 or the IO encoding is specified in the
+ environment, i.e.::
+
+ PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 pip install numpy
+
+* Fix for encoding issue when installing from Windows executable on Python 3.
+* Distribute #323: Allow `setup_requires` requirements to supercede installed
+ requirements. Added some new keyword arguments to existing pkg_resources
+ methods. Also had to updated how __path__ is handled for namespace packages
+ to ensure that when a new egg distribution containing a namespace package is
+ placed on sys.path, the entries in __path__ are found in the same order they
+ would have been in had that egg been on the path when pkg_resources was
+ first imported.
+
+0.6.30
+------
+
+* Distribute #328: Clean up temporary directories in distribute_setup.py.
+* Fix fatal bug in distribute_setup.py.
+
+0.6.29
+------
+
+* BB Pull Request #14: Honor file permissions in zip files.
+* Distribute #327: Merged pull request #24 to fix a dependency problem with pip.
+* Merged pull request #23 to fix https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/301.
+* If Sphinx is installed, the `upload_docs` command now runs `build_sphinx`
+ to produce uploadable documentation.
+* Distribute #326: `upload_docs` provided mangled auth credentials under Python 3.
+* Distribute #320: Fix check for "createable" in distribute_setup.py.
+* Distribute #305: Remove a warning that was triggered during normal operations.
+* Distribute #311: Print metadata in UTF-8 independent of platform.
+* Distribute #303: Read manifest file with UTF-8 encoding under Python 3.
+* Distribute #301: Allow to run tests of namespace packages when using 2to3.
+* Distribute #304: Prevent import loop in site.py under Python 3.3.
+* Distribute #283: Reenable scanning of `*.pyc` / `*.pyo` files on Python 3.3.
+* Distribute #299: The develop command didn't work on Python 3, when using 2to3,
+ as the egg link would go to the Python 2 source. Linking to the 2to3'd code
+ in build/lib makes it work, although you will have to rebuild the module
+ before testing it.
+* Distribute #306: Even if 2to3 is used, we build in-place under Python 2.
+* Distribute #307: Prints the full path when .svn/entries is broken.
+* Distribute #313: Support for sdist subcommands (Python 2.7)
+* Distribute #314: test_local_index() would fail an OS X.
+* Distribute #310: Non-ascii characters in a namespace __init__.py causes errors.
+* Distribute #218: Improved documentation on behavior of `package_data` and
+ `include_package_data`. Files indicated by `package_data` are now included
+ in the manifest.
+* `distribute_setup.py` now allows a `--download-base` argument for retrieving
+ distribute from a specified location.
+
+0.6.28
+------
+
+* Distribute #294: setup.py can now be invoked from any directory.
+* Scripts are now installed honoring the umask.
+* Added support for .dist-info directories.
+* Distribute #283: Fix and disable scanning of `*.pyc` / `*.pyo` files on
+ Python 3.3.
+
+0.6.27
+------
+
+* Support current snapshots of CPython 3.3.
+* Distribute now recognizes README.rst as a standard, default readme file.
+* Exclude 'encodings' modules when removing modules from sys.modules.
+ Workaround for #285.
+* Distribute #231: Don't fiddle with system python when used with buildout
+ (bootstrap.py)
+
+0.6.26
+------
+
+* Distribute #183: Symlinked files are now extracted from source distributions.
+* Distribute #227: Easy_install fetch parameters are now passed during the
+ installation of a source distribution; now fulfillment of setup_requires
+ dependencies will honor the parameters passed to easy_install.
+
+0.6.25
+------
+
+* Distribute #258: Workaround a cache issue
+* Distribute #260: distribute_setup.py now accepts the --user parameter for
+ Python 2.6 and later.
+* Distribute #262: package_index.open_with_auth no longer throws LookupError
+ on Python 3.
+* Distribute #269: AttributeError when an exception occurs reading Manifest.in
+ on late releases of Python.
+* Distribute #272: Prevent TypeError when namespace package names are unicode
+ and single-install-externally-managed is used. Also fixes PIP issue
+ 449.
+* Distribute #273: Legacy script launchers now install with Python2/3 support.
+
+0.6.24
+------
+
+* Distribute #249: Added options to exclude 2to3 fixers
+
+0.6.23
+------
+
+* Distribute #244: Fixed a test
+* Distribute #243: Fixed a test
+* Distribute #239: Fixed a test
+* Distribute #240: Fixed a test
+* Distribute #241: Fixed a test
+* Distribute #237: Fixed a test
+* Distribute #238: easy_install now uses 64bit executable wrappers on 64bit Python
+* Distribute #208: Fixed parsed_versions, it now honors post-releases as noted in the documentation
+* Distribute #207: Windows cli and gui wrappers pass CTRL-C to child python process
+* Distribute #227: easy_install now passes its arguments to setup.py bdist_egg
+* Distribute #225: Fixed a NameError on Python 2.5, 2.4
+
+0.6.21
+------
+
+* Distribute #225: FIxed a regression on py2.4
+
+0.6.20
+------
+
+* Distribute #135: Include url in warning when processing URLs in package_index.
+* Distribute #212: Fix issue where easy_instal fails on Python 3 on windows installer.
+* Distribute #213: Fix typo in documentation.
+
+0.6.19
+------
+
+* Distribute #206: AttributeError: 'HTTPMessage' object has no attribute 'getheaders'
+
+0.6.18
+------
+
+* Distribute #210: Fixed a regression introduced by Distribute #204 fix.
+
+0.6.17
+------
+
+* Support 'DISTRIBUTE_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT' environment
+ variable to allow to disable installation of easy_install-${version} script.
+* Support Python >=3.1.4 and >=3.2.1.
+* Distribute #204: Don't try to import the parent of a namespace package in
+ declare_namespace
+* Distribute #196: Tolerate responses with multiple Content-Length headers
+* Distribute #205: Sandboxing doesn't preserve working_set. Leads to setup_requires
+ problems.
+
+0.6.16
+------
+
+* Builds sdist gztar even on Windows (avoiding Distribute #193).
+* Distribute #192: Fixed metadata omitted on Windows when package_dir
+ specified with forward-slash.
+* Distribute #195: Cython build support.
+* Distribute #200: Issues with recognizing 64-bit packages on Windows.
+
+0.6.15
+------
+
+* Fixed typo in bdist_egg
+* Several issues under Python 3 has been solved.
+* Distribute #146: Fixed missing DLL files after easy_install of windows exe package.
+
+0.6.14
+------
+
+* Distribute #170: Fixed unittest failure. Thanks to Toshio.
+* Distribute #171: Fixed race condition in unittests cause deadlocks in test suite.
+* Distribute #143: Fixed a lookup issue with easy_install.
+ Thanks to David and Zooko.
+* Distribute #174: Fixed the edit mode when its used with setuptools itself
+
+0.6.13
+------
+
+* Distribute #160: 2.7 gives ValueError("Invalid IPv6 URL")
+* Distribute #150: Fixed using ~/.local even in a --no-site-packages virtualenv
+* Distribute #163: scan index links before external links, and don't use the md5 when
+ comparing two distributions
+
+0.6.12
+------
+
+* Distribute #149: Fixed various failures on 2.3/2.4
+
+0.6.11
+------
+
+* Found another case of SandboxViolation - fixed
+* Distribute #15 and Distribute #48: Introduced a socket timeout of 15 seconds on url openings
+* Added indexsidebar.html into MANIFEST.in
+* Distribute #108: Fixed TypeError with Python3.1
+* Distribute #121: Fixed --help install command trying to actually install.
+* Distribute #112: Added an os.makedirs so that Tarek's solution will work.
+* Distribute #133: Added --no-find-links to easy_install
+* Added easy_install --user
+* Distribute #100: Fixed develop --user not taking '.' in PYTHONPATH into account
+* Distribute #134: removed spurious UserWarnings. Patch by VanLindberg
+* Distribute #138: cant_write_to_target error when setup_requires is used.
+* Distribute #147: respect the sys.dont_write_bytecode flag
+
+0.6.10
+------
+
+* Reverted change made for the DistributionNotFound exception because
+ zc.buildout uses the exception message to get the name of the
+ distribution.
+
+0.6.9
+-----
+
+* Distribute #90: unknown setuptools version can be added in the working set
+* Distribute #87: setupt.py doesn't try to convert distribute_setup.py anymore
+ Initial Patch by arfrever.
+* Distribute #89: added a side bar with a download link to the doc.
+* Distribute #86: fixed missing sentence in pkg_resources doc.
+* Added a nicer error message when a DistributionNotFound is raised.
+* Distribute #80: test_develop now works with Python 3.1
+* Distribute #93: upload_docs now works if there is an empty sub-directory.
+* Distribute #70: exec bit on non-exec files
+* Distribute #99: now the standalone easy_install command doesn't uses a
+ "setup.cfg" if any exists in the working directory. It will use it
+ only if triggered by ``install_requires`` from a setup.py call
+ (install, develop, etc).
+* Distribute #101: Allowing ``os.devnull`` in Sandbox
+* Distribute #92: Fixed the "no eggs" found error with MacPort
+ (platform.mac_ver() fails)
+* Distribute #103: test_get_script_header_jython_workaround not run
+ anymore under py3 with C or POSIX local. Contributed by Arfrever.
+* Distribute #104: remvoved the assertion when the installation fails,
+ with a nicer message for the end user.
+* Distribute #100: making sure there's no SandboxViolation when
+ the setup script patches setuptools.
+
+0.6.8
+-----
+
+* Added "check_packages" in dist. (added in Setuptools 0.6c11)
+* Fixed the DONT_PATCH_SETUPTOOLS state.
+
+0.6.7
+-----
+
+* Distribute #58: Added --user support to the develop command
+* Distribute #11: Generated scripts now wrap their call to the script entry point
+ in the standard "if name == 'main'"
+* Added the 'DONT_PATCH_SETUPTOOLS' environment variable, so virtualenv
+ can drive an installation that doesn't patch a global setuptools.
+* Reviewed unladen-swallow specific change from
+ http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/detail?spec=svn875&r=719
+ and determined that it no longer applies. Distribute should work fine with
+ Unladen Swallow 2009Q3.
+* Distribute #21: Allow PackageIndex.open_url to gracefully handle all cases of a
+ httplib.HTTPException instead of just InvalidURL and BadStatusLine.
+* Removed virtual-python.py from this distribution and updated documentation
+ to point to the actively maintained virtualenv instead.
+* Distribute #64: use_setuptools no longer rebuilds the distribute egg every
+ time it is run
+* use_setuptools now properly respects the requested version
+* use_setuptools will no longer try to import a distribute egg for the
+ wrong Python version
+* Distribute #74: no_fake should be True by default.
+* Distribute #72: avoid a bootstrapping issue with easy_install -U
+
+0.6.6
+-----
+
+* Unified the bootstrap file so it works on both py2.x and py3k without 2to3
+ (patch by Holger Krekel)
+
+0.6.5
+-----
+
+* Distribute #65: cli.exe and gui.exe are now generated at build time,
+ depending on the platform in use.
+
+* Distribute #67: Fixed doc typo (PEP 381/PEP 382).
+
+* Distribute no longer shadows setuptools if we require a 0.7-series
+ setuptools. And an error is raised when installing a 0.7 setuptools with
+ distribute.
+
+* When run from within buildout, no attempt is made to modify an existing
+ setuptools egg, whether in a shared egg directory or a system setuptools.
+
+* Fixed a hole in sandboxing allowing builtin file to write outside of
+ the sandbox.
+
+0.6.4
+-----
+
+* Added the generation of `distribute_setup_3k.py` during the release.
+ This closes Distribute #52.
+
+* Added an upload_docs command to easily upload project documentation to
+ PyPI's https://pythonhosted.org. This close issue Distribute #56.
+
+* Fixed a bootstrap bug on the use_setuptools() API.
+
+0.6.3
+-----
+
+setuptools
+==========
+
+* Fixed a bunch of calls to file() that caused crashes on Python 3.
+
+bootstrapping
+=============
+
+* Fixed a bug in sorting that caused bootstrap to fail on Python 3.
+
+0.6.2
+-----
+
+setuptools
+==========
+
+* Added Python 3 support; see docs/python3.txt.
+ This closes Old Setuptools #39.
+
+* Added option to run 2to3 automatically when installing on Python 3.
+ This closes issue Distribute #31.
+
+* Fixed invalid usage of requirement.parse, that broke develop -d.
+ This closes Old Setuptools #44.
+
+* Fixed script launcher for 64-bit Windows.
+ This closes Old Setuptools #2.
+
+* KeyError when compiling extensions.
+ This closes Old Setuptools #41.
+
+bootstrapping
+=============
+
+* Fixed bootstrap not working on Windows. This closes issue Distribute #49.
+
+* Fixed 2.6 dependencies. This closes issue Distribute #50.
+
+* Make sure setuptools is patched when running through easy_install
+ This closes Old Setuptools #40.
+
+0.6.1
+-----
+
+setuptools
+==========
+
+* package_index.urlopen now catches BadStatusLine and malformed url errors.
+ This closes Distribute #16 and Distribute #18.
+
+* zip_ok is now False by default. This closes Old Setuptools #33.
+
+* Fixed invalid URL error catching. Old Setuptools #20.
+
+* Fixed invalid bootstraping with easy_install installation (Distribute #40).
+ Thanks to Florian Schulze for the help.
+
+* Removed buildout/bootstrap.py. A new repository will create a specific
+ bootstrap.py script.
+
+
+bootstrapping
+=============
+
+* The boostrap process leave setuptools alone if detected in the system
+ and --root or --prefix is provided, but is not in the same location.
+ This closes Distribute #10.
+
+0.6
+---
+
+setuptools
+==========
+
+* Packages required at build time where not fully present at install time.
+ This closes Distribute #12.
+
+* Protected against failures in tarfile extraction. This closes Distribute #10.
+
+* Made Jython api_tests.txt doctest compatible. This closes Distribute #7.
+
+* sandbox.py replaced builtin type file with builtin function open. This
+ closes Distribute #6.
+
+* Immediately close all file handles. This closes Distribute #3.
+
+* Added compatibility with Subversion 1.6. This references Distribute #1.
+
+pkg_resources
+=============
+
+* Avoid a call to /usr/bin/sw_vers on OSX and use the official platform API
+ instead. Based on a patch from ronaldoussoren. This closes issue #5.
+
+* Fixed a SandboxViolation for mkdir that could occur in certain cases.
+ This closes Distribute #13.
+
+* Allow to find_on_path on systems with tight permissions to fail gracefully.
+ This closes Distribute #9.
+
+* Corrected inconsistency between documentation and code of add_entry.
+ This closes Distribute #8.
+
+* Immediately close all file handles. This closes Distribute #3.
+
+easy_install
+============
+
+* Immediately close all file handles. This closes Distribute #3.
+
+0.6c9
+-----
+
+ * Fixed a missing files problem when using Windows source distributions on
+ non-Windows platforms, due to distutils not handling manifest file line
+ endings correctly.
+
+ * Updated Pyrex support to work with Pyrex 0.9.6 and higher.
+
+ * Minor changes for Jython compatibility, including skipping tests that can't
+ work on Jython.
+
+ * Fixed not installing eggs in ``install_requires`` if they were also used for
+ ``setup_requires`` or ``tests_require``.
+
+ * Fixed not fetching eggs in ``install_requires`` when running tests.
+
+ * Allow ``ez_setup.use_setuptools()`` to upgrade existing setuptools
+ installations when called from a standalone ``setup.py``.
+
+ * Added a warning if a namespace package is declared, but its parent package
+ is not also declared as a namespace.
+
+ * Support Subversion 1.5
+
+ * Removed use of deprecated ``md5`` module if ``hashlib`` is available
+
+ * Fixed ``bdist_wininst upload`` trying to upload the ``.exe`` twice
+
+ * Fixed ``bdist_egg`` putting a ``native_libs.txt`` in the source package's
+ ``.egg-info``, when it should only be in the built egg's ``EGG-INFO``.
+
+ * Ensure that _full_name is set on all shared libs before extensions are
+ checked for shared lib usage. (Fixes a bug in the experimental shared
+ library build support.)
+
+ * Fix to allow unpacked eggs containing native libraries to fail more
+ gracefully under Google App Engine (with an ``ImportError`` loading the
+ C-based module, instead of getting a ``NameError``).
+
+0.6c7
+-----
+
+ * Fixed ``distutils.filelist.findall()`` crashing on broken symlinks, and
+ ``egg_info`` command failing on new, uncommitted SVN directories.
+
+ * Fix import problems with nested namespace packages installed via
+ ``--root`` or ``--single-version-externally-managed``, due to the
+ parent package not having the child package as an attribute.
+
+0.6c6
+-----
+
+ * Added ``--egg-path`` option to ``develop`` command, allowing you to force
+ ``.egg-link`` files to use relative paths (allowing them to be shared across
+ platforms on a networked drive).
+
+ * Fix not building binary RPMs correctly.
+
+ * Fix "eggsecutables" (such as setuptools' own egg) only being runnable with
+ bash-compatible shells.
+
+ * Fix ``#!`` parsing problems in Windows ``.exe`` script wrappers, when there
+ was whitespace inside a quoted argument or at the end of the ``#!`` line
+ (a regression introduced in 0.6c4).
+
+ * Fix ``test`` command possibly failing if an older version of the project
+ being tested was installed on ``sys.path`` ahead of the test source
+ directory.
+
+ * Fix ``find_packages()`` treating ``ez_setup`` and directories with ``.`` in
+ their names as packages.
+
+0.6c5
+-----
+
+ * Fix uploaded ``bdist_rpm`` packages being described as ``bdist_egg``
+ packages under Python versions less than 2.5.
+
+ * Fix uploaded ``bdist_wininst`` packages being described as suitable for
+ "any" version by Python 2.5, even if a ``--target-version`` was specified.
+
+0.6c4
+-----
+
+ * Overhauled Windows script wrapping to support ``bdist_wininst`` better.
+ Scripts installed with ``bdist_wininst`` will always use ``#!python.exe`` or
+ ``#!pythonw.exe`` as the executable name (even when built on non-Windows
+ platforms!), and the wrappers will look for the executable in the script's
+ parent directory (which should find the right version of Python).
+
+ * Fix ``upload`` command not uploading files built by ``bdist_rpm`` or
+ ``bdist_wininst`` under Python 2.3 and 2.4.
+
+ * Add support for "eggsecutable" headers: a ``#!/bin/sh`` script that is
+ prepended to an ``.egg`` file to allow it to be run as a script on Unix-ish
+ platforms. (This is mainly so that setuptools itself can have a single-file
+ installer on Unix, without doing multiple downloads, dealing with firewalls,
+ etc.)
+
+ * Fix problem with empty revision numbers in Subversion 1.4 ``entries`` files
+
+ * Use cross-platform relative paths in ``easy-install.pth`` when doing
+ ``develop`` and the source directory is a subdirectory of the installation
+ target directory.
+
+ * Fix a problem installing eggs with a system packaging tool if the project
+ contained an implicit namespace package; for example if the ``setup()``
+ listed a namespace package ``foo.bar`` without explicitly listing ``foo``
+ as a namespace package.
+
+0.6c3
+-----
+
+ * Fixed breakages caused by Subversion 1.4's new "working copy" format
+
+0.6c2
+-----
+
+ * The ``ez_setup`` module displays the conflicting version of setuptools (and
+ its installation location) when a script requests a version that's not
+ available.
+
+ * Running ``setup.py develop`` on a setuptools-using project will now install
+ setuptools if needed, instead of only downloading the egg.
+
+0.6c1
+-----
+
+ * Fixed ``AttributeError`` when trying to download a ``setup_requires``
+ dependency when a distribution lacks a ``dependency_links`` setting.
+
+ * Made ``zip-safe`` and ``not-zip-safe`` flag files contain a single byte, so
+ as to play better with packaging tools that complain about zero-length
+ files.
+
+ * Made ``setup.py develop`` respect the ``--no-deps`` option, which it
+ previously was ignoring.
+
+ * Support ``extra_path`` option to ``setup()`` when ``install`` is run in
+ backward-compatibility mode.
+
+ * Source distributions now always include a ``setup.cfg`` file that explicitly
+ sets ``egg_info`` options such that they produce an identical version number
+ to the source distribution's version number. (Previously, the default
+ version number could be different due to the use of ``--tag-date``, or if
+ the version was overridden on the command line that built the source
+ distribution.)
+
+0.6b4
+-----
+
+ * Fix ``register`` not obeying name/version set by ``egg_info`` command, if
+ ``egg_info`` wasn't explicitly run first on the same command line.
+
+ * Added ``--no-date`` and ``--no-svn-revision`` options to ``egg_info``
+ command, to allow suppressing tags configured in ``setup.cfg``.
+
+ * Fixed redundant warnings about missing ``README`` file(s); it should now
+ appear only if you are actually a source distribution.
+
+0.6b3
+-----
+
+ * Fix ``bdist_egg`` not including files in subdirectories of ``.egg-info``.
+
+ * Allow ``.py`` files found by the ``include_package_data`` option to be
+ automatically included. Remove duplicate data file matches if both
+ ``include_package_data`` and ``package_data`` are used to refer to the same
+ files.
+
+0.6b1
+-----
+
+ * Strip ``module`` from the end of compiled extension modules when computing
+ the name of a ``.py`` loader/wrapper. (Python's import machinery ignores
+ this suffix when searching for an extension module.)
+
+0.6a11
+------
+
+ * Added ``test_loader`` keyword to support custom test loaders
+
+ * Added ``setuptools.file_finders`` entry point group to allow implementing
+ revision control plugins.
+
+ * Added ``--identity`` option to ``upload`` command.
+
+ * Added ``dependency_links`` to allow specifying URLs for ``--find-links``.
+
+ * Enhanced test loader to scan packages as well as modules, and call
+ ``additional_tests()`` if present to get non-unittest tests.
+
+ * Support namespace packages in conjunction with system packagers, by omitting
+ the installation of any ``__init__.py`` files for namespace packages, and
+ adding a special ``.pth`` file to create a working package in
+ ``sys.modules``.
+
+ * Made ``--single-version-externally-managed`` automatic when ``--root`` is
+ used, so that most system packagers won't require special support for
+ setuptools.
+
+ * Fixed ``setup_requires``, ``tests_require``, etc. not using ``setup.cfg`` or
+ other configuration files for their option defaults when installing, and
+ also made the install use ``--multi-version`` mode so that the project
+ directory doesn't need to support .pth files.
+
+ * ``MANIFEST.in`` is now forcibly closed when any errors occur while reading
+ it. Previously, the file could be left open and the actual error would be
+ masked by problems trying to remove the open file on Windows systems.
+
+0.6a10
+------
+
+ * Fixed the ``develop`` command ignoring ``--find-links``.
+
+0.6a9
+-----
+
+ * The ``sdist`` command no longer uses the traditional ``MANIFEST`` file to
+ create source distributions. ``MANIFEST.in`` is still read and processed,
+ as are the standard defaults and pruning. But the manifest is built inside
+ the project's ``.egg-info`` directory as ``SOURCES.txt``, and it is rebuilt
+ every time the ``egg_info`` command is run.
+
+ * Added the ``include_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
+ automatically include any package data listed in revision control or
+ ``MANIFEST.in``
+
+ * Added the ``exclude_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
+ trim back files included via the ``package_data`` and
+ ``include_package_data`` options.
+
+ * Fixed ``--tag-svn-revision`` not working when run from a source
+ distribution.
+
+ * Added warning for namespace packages with missing ``declare_namespace()``
+
+ * Added ``tests_require`` keyword to ``setup()``, so that e.g. packages
+ requiring ``nose`` to run unit tests can make this dependency optional
+ unless the ``test`` command is run.
+
+ * Made all commands that use ``easy_install`` respect its configuration
+ options, as this was causing some problems with ``setup.py install``.
+
+ * Added an ``unpack_directory()`` driver to ``setuptools.archive_util``, so
+ that you can process a directory tree through a processing filter as if it
+ were a zipfile or tarfile.
+
+ * Added an internal ``install_egg_info`` command to use as part of old-style
+ ``install`` operations, that installs an ``.egg-info`` directory with the
+ package.
+
+ * Added a ``--single-version-externally-managed`` option to the ``install``
+ command so that you can more easily wrap a "flat" egg in a system package.
+
+ * Enhanced ``bdist_rpm`` so that it installs single-version eggs that
+ don't rely on a ``.pth`` file. The ``--no-egg`` option has been removed,
+ since all RPMs are now built in a more backwards-compatible format.
+
+ * Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from ``bdist_wininst``
+ format. Running ``bdist_wininst`` on a setuptools-based package wraps the
+ egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata
+ and entry-point wrapper scripts), and ``easy_install`` can turn the .exe
+ back into an ``.egg`` file or directory and install it as such.
+
+
+0.6a8
+-----
+
+ * Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
+ with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
+
+ * Made ``develop`` command accept all the same options as ``easy_install``,
+ and use the ``easy_install`` command's configuration settings as defaults.
+
+ * Made ``egg_info --tag-svn-revision`` fall back to extracting the revision
+ number from ``PKG-INFO`` in case it is being run on a source distribution of
+ a snapshot taken from a Subversion-based project.
+
+ * Automatically detect ``.dll``, ``.so`` and ``.dylib`` files that are being
+ installed as data, adding them to ``native_libs.txt`` automatically.
+
+ * Fixed some problems with fresh checkouts of projects that don't include
+ ``.egg-info/PKG-INFO`` under revision control and put the project's source
+ code directly in the project directory. If such a package had any
+ requirements that get processed before the ``egg_info`` command can be run,
+ the setup scripts would fail with a "Missing 'Version:' header and/or
+ PKG-INFO file" error, because the egg runtime interpreted the unbuilt
+ metadata in a directory on ``sys.path`` (i.e. the current directory) as
+ being a corrupted egg. Setuptools now monkeypatches the distribution
+ metadata cache to pretend that the egg has valid version information, until
+ it has a chance to make it actually be so (via the ``egg_info`` command).
+
+0.6a5
+-----
+
+ * Fixed missing gui/cli .exe files in distribution. Fixed bugs in tests.
+
+0.6a3
+-----
+
+ * Added ``gui_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing GUI scripts
+ on Windows and other platforms. (The special handling is only for Windows;
+ other platforms are treated the same as for ``console_scripts``.)
+
+0.6a2
+-----
+
+ * Added ``console_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing scripts
+ without the need to create separate script files. On Windows, console
+ scripts get an ``.exe`` wrapper so you can just type their name. On other
+ platforms, the scripts are written without a file extension.
+
+0.6a1
+-----
+
+ * Added support for building "old-style" RPMs that don't install an egg for
+ the target package, using a ``--no-egg`` option.
+
+ * The ``build_ext`` command now works better when using the ``--inplace``
+ option and multiple Python versions. It now makes sure that all extensions
+ match the current Python version, even if newer copies were built for a
+ different Python version.
+
+ * The ``upload`` command no longer attaches an extra ``.zip`` when uploading
+ eggs, as PyPI now supports egg uploads without trickery.
+
+ * The ``ez_setup`` script/module now displays a warning before downloading
+ the setuptools egg, and attempts to check the downloaded egg against an
+ internal MD5 checksum table.
+
+ * Fixed the ``--tag-svn-revision`` option of ``egg_info`` not finding the
+ latest revision number; it was using the revision number of the directory
+ containing ``setup.py``, not the highest revision number in the project.
+
+ * Added ``eager_resources`` setup argument
+
+ * The ``sdist`` command now recognizes Subversion "deleted file" entries and
+ does not include them in source distributions.
+
+ * ``setuptools`` now embeds itself more thoroughly into the distutils, so that
+ other distutils extensions (e.g. py2exe, py2app) will subclass setuptools'
+ versions of things, rather than the native distutils ones.
+
+ * Added ``entry_points`` and ``setup_requires`` arguments to ``setup()``;
+ ``setup_requires`` allows you to automatically find and download packages
+ that are needed in order to *build* your project (as opposed to running it).
+
+ * ``setuptools`` now finds its commands, ``setup()`` argument validators, and
+ metadata writers using entry points, so that they can be extended by
+ third-party packages. See `Creating distutils Extensions
+ <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#creating-distutils-extensions>`_
+ for more details.
+
+ * The vestigial ``depends`` command has been removed. It was never finished
+ or documented, and never would have worked without EasyInstall - which it
+ pre-dated and was never compatible with.
+
+0.5a12
+------
+
+ * The zip-safety scanner now checks for modules that might be used with
+ ``python -m``, and marks them as unsafe for zipping, since Python 2.4 can't
+ handle ``-m`` on zipped modules.
+
+0.5a11
+------
+
+ * Fix breakage of the "develop" command that was caused by the addition of
+ ``--always-unzip`` to the ``easy_install`` command.
+
+0.5a9
+-----
+
+ * Include ``svn:externals`` directories in source distributions as well as
+ normal subversion-controlled files and directories.
+
+ * Added ``exclude=patternlist`` option to ``setuptools.find_packages()``
+
+ * Changed --tag-svn-revision to include an "r" in front of the revision number
+ for better readability.
+
+ * Added ability to build eggs without including source files (except for any
+ scripts, of course), using the ``--exclude-source-files`` option to
+ ``bdist_egg``.
+
+ * ``setup.py install`` now automatically detects when an "unmanaged" package
+ or module is going to be on ``sys.path`` ahead of a package being installed,
+ thereby preventing the newer version from being imported. If this occurs,
+ a warning message is output to ``sys.stderr``, but installation proceeds
+ anyway. The warning message informs the user what files or directories
+ need deleting, and advises them they can also use EasyInstall (with the
+ ``--delete-conflicting`` option) to do it automatically.
+
+ * The ``egg_info`` command now adds a ``top_level.txt`` file to the metadata
+ directory that lists all top-level modules and packages in the distribution.
+ This is used by the ``easy_install`` command to find possibly-conflicting
+ "unmanaged" packages when installing the distribution.
+
+ * Added ``zip_safe`` and ``namespace_packages`` arguments to ``setup()``.
+ Added package analysis to determine zip-safety if the ``zip_safe`` flag
+ is not given, and advise the author regarding what code might need changing.
+
+ * Fixed the swapped ``-d`` and ``-b`` options of ``bdist_egg``.
+
+0.5a8
+-----
+
+ * The "egg_info" command now always sets the distribution metadata to "safe"
+ forms of the distribution name and version, so that distribution files will
+ be generated with parseable names (i.e., ones that don't include '-' in the
+ name or version). Also, this means that if you use the various ``--tag``
+ options of "egg_info", any distributions generated will use the tags in the
+ version, not just egg distributions.
+
+ * Added support for defining command aliases in distutils configuration files,
+ under the "[aliases]" section. To prevent recursion and to allow aliases to
+ call the command of the same name, a given alias can be expanded only once
+ per command-line invocation. You can define new aliases with the "alias"
+ command, either for the local, global, or per-user configuration.
+
+ * Added "rotate" command to delete old distribution files, given a set of
+ patterns to match and the number of files to keep. (Keeps the most
+ recently-modified distribution files matching each pattern.)
+
+ * Added "saveopts" command that saves all command-line options for the current
+ invocation to the local, global, or per-user configuration file. Useful for
+ setting defaults without having to hand-edit a configuration file.
+
+ * Added a "setopt" command that sets a single option in a specified distutils
+ configuration file.
+
+0.5a7
+-----
+
+ * Added "upload" support for egg and source distributions, including a bug
+ fix for "upload" and a temporary workaround for lack of .egg support in
+ PyPI.
+
+0.5a6
+-----
+
+ * Beefed up the "sdist" command so that if you don't have a MANIFEST.in, it
+ will include all files under revision control (CVS or Subversion) in the
+ current directory, and it will regenerate the list every time you create a
+ source distribution, not just when you tell it to. This should make the
+ default "do what you mean" more often than the distutils' default behavior
+ did, while still retaining the old behavior in the presence of MANIFEST.in.
+
+ * Fixed the "develop" command always updating .pth files, even if you
+ specified ``-n`` or ``--dry-run``.
+
+ * Slightly changed the format of the generated version when you use
+ ``--tag-build`` on the "egg_info" command, so that you can make tagged
+ revisions compare *lower* than the version specified in setup.py (e.g. by
+ using ``--tag-build=dev``).
+
+0.5a5
+-----
+
+ * Added ``develop`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages. This command
+ installs an ``.egg-link`` pointing to the package's source directory, and
+ script wrappers that ``execfile()`` the source versions of the package's
+ scripts. This lets you put your development checkout(s) on sys.path without
+ having to actually install them. (To uninstall the link, use
+ use ``setup.py develop --uninstall``.)
+
+ * Added ``egg_info`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages. This command
+ just creates or updates the "projectname.egg-info" directory, without
+ building an egg. (It's used by the ``bdist_egg``, ``test``, and ``develop``
+ commands.)
+
+ * Enhanced the ``test`` command so that it doesn't install the package, but
+ instead builds any C extensions in-place, updates the ``.egg-info``
+ metadata, adds the source directory to ``sys.path``, and runs the tests
+ directly on the source. This avoids an "unmanaged" installation of the
+ package to ``site-packages`` or elsewhere.
+
+ * Made ``easy_install`` a standard ``setuptools`` command, moving it from
+ the ``easy_install`` module to ``setuptools.command.easy_install``. Note
+ that if you were importing or extending it, you must now change your imports
+ accordingly. ``easy_install.py`` is still installed as a script, but not as
+ a module.
+
+0.5a4
+-----
+
+ * Setup scripts using setuptools can now list their dependencies directly in
+ the setup.py file, without having to manually create a ``depends.txt`` file.
+ The ``install_requires`` and ``extras_require`` arguments to ``setup()``
+ are used to create a dependencies file automatically. If you are manually
+ creating ``depends.txt`` right now, please switch to using these setup
+ arguments as soon as practical, because ``depends.txt`` support will be
+ removed in the 0.6 release cycle. For documentation on the new arguments,
+ see the ``setuptools.dist.Distribution`` class.
+
+ * Setup scripts using setuptools now always install using ``easy_install``
+ internally, for ease of uninstallation and upgrading.
+
+0.5a1
+-----
+
+ * Added support for "self-installation" bootstrapping. Packages can now
+ include ``ez_setup.py`` in their source distribution, and add the following
+ to their ``setup.py``, in order to automatically bootstrap installation of
+ setuptools as part of their setup process::
+
+ from ez_setup import use_setuptools
+ use_setuptools()
+
+ from setuptools import setup
+ # etc...
+
+0.4a2
+-----
+
+ * Added ``ez_setup.py`` installer/bootstrap script to make initial setuptools
+ installation easier, and to allow distributions using setuptools to avoid
+ having to include setuptools in their source distribution.
+
+ * All downloads are now managed by the ``PackageIndex`` class (which is now
+ subclassable and replaceable), so that embedders can more easily override
+ download logic, give download progress reports, etc. The class has also
+ been moved to the new ``setuptools.package_index`` module.
+
+ * The ``Installer`` class no longer handles downloading, manages a temporary
+ directory, or tracks the ``zip_ok`` option. Downloading is now handled
+ by ``PackageIndex``, and ``Installer`` has become an ``easy_install``
+ command class based on ``setuptools.Command``.
+
+ * There is a new ``setuptools.sandbox.run_setup()`` API to invoke a setup
+ script in a directory sandbox, and a new ``setuptools.archive_util`` module
+ with an ``unpack_archive()`` API. These were split out of EasyInstall to
+ allow reuse by other tools and applications.
+
+ * ``setuptools.Command`` now supports reinitializing commands using keyword
+ arguments to set/reset options. Also, ``Command`` subclasses can now set
+ their ``command_consumes_arguments`` attribute to ``True`` in order to
+ receive an ``args`` option containing the rest of the command line.
+
+0.3a2
+-----
+
+ * Added new options to ``bdist_egg`` to allow tagging the egg's version number
+ with a subversion revision number, the current date, or an explicit tag
+ value. Run ``setup.py bdist_egg --help`` to get more information.
+
+ * Misc. bug fixes
+
+0.3a1
+-----
+
+ * Initial release.
+