Comment 2 for bug 881130

I don't know anything about zc.buildout. How is it invoking setup.py?

Also, if anyone knows, why doesn't bdist_egg invoke the "build" task before doing whatever it does? Is there any documentation about the interface between these various tools and setup.py? I don't want to have to reverse engineer setuptools, distutils, distribute, etc. just to invoke a configure script.