Remove explicit depend on distribute.0.5.16

Things in the world are moving towards setuptools 0.7, and
there is not a path between distribute and setuptools. Our explicit
dependency on setuptools is causing us to have to write patches to
try to jump through additional hoops to get it to install in the
right contexts.

Fixes bug 1189941

Change-Id: Id7a749c02203100dab52160a551d3548c8a48fd6

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0fd8d96..dcc3d3e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,19 +14,6 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-import os
-import sys
-
-try:
-    sys.path += [x for x in os.listdir(".") if x.endswith(".egg")]
-    import d2to1  # flake8: noqa
-except ImportError:
-    import subprocess
-    if not subprocess.call(
-        [sys.executable] +
-            "-m pip.__init__ install distribute<0.7 d2to1>=0.2.10,<0.3".split()
-    ):
-        sys.exit(subprocess.call([sys.executable] + sys.argv))
 import setuptools
 
 setuptools.setup(