Allow installing without setuptools

Setuptools v34 requires appdirs, which creates an obvious bootstrap problem if appdirs uses setuptools in its setup.py. Therefore, allow installing with distutils if setuptools is not available.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cae6330..f8bbd93 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 import sys
 import os
 import os.path
-from setuptools import setup
+# appdirs is a dependency of setuptools, so allow installing without it.
+try:
+    from setuptools import setup
+except ImportError:
+    from distutils.core import setup
 import appdirs
 
 tests_require = []