Is there a method to find out if a package is to be installed with distutils instead of setuptools?

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Published on 2010-05-15T11:23:18Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 11:24 UTC
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I can look inside setup.py I suppose to see if it's a distutils package. But in the process of familiarizing myself with python package management I have noticed that there seems to be more than one way to do it. So:

How can I check an unzipped packages directory or setup.py to see how to build it?

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