Comment 1 for bug 999002

There is more to it. If setuptools is not really needed, I'd recommend dropping this dependency.

$ pip install http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/coding/software/glipy.tgz
Downloading/unpacking http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/coding/software/glipy.tgz
  Downloading glipy.tgz (53Kb): 53Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package from http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/coding/software/glipy.tgz
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-fQVcf9-build/setup.py", line 11, in <module>
        from ez_setup import use_setuptools
    ImportError: No module named ez_setup
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 14, in <module>

  File "/tmp/pip-fQVcf9-build/setup.py", line 11, in <module>

    from ez_setup import use_setuptools

ImportError: No module named ez_setup

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Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-fQVcf9-build