That isn't the takeaway I got. It was that Setuptools is broken, but so is pip and distutils2. Pip lost very worthwhile functionality that exists in setuptools, namely binary eggs.
Binary eggs aren't a good reason to trash pip, which otherwise works great. He really didn't say how distutils2 was broken, just expressed some sort of prejudice against it.
Again, it would be nice if you stopped making shit up on the spot, TFA didn't say anywhere that pip is "broken" or anything even remotely close to that.
> That isn't the takeaway I got. It was that Setuptools is broken, but so is pip and distutils2. Pip lost very worthwhile functionality that exists in setuptools, namely binary eggs.
The takeaway should be that it's very easy to miss usecases by accident when replacing tools with other tools.
