[Vobject] any way to install vobject without setuptools?

[Bill Janssen]

Jeffrey Harris <jeffrey at skyhouseconsulting.com> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> 
> > I'm having a lot of trouble getting setuptools to work correctly across
> > a variety of architectures.  Right now, of the dozen or so Python
> > packages I use, yours is the only one one that seems deeply wedded to
> > setuptools.  Is there any deep reason for that?  I can't see one from
> > a quick scan of the code.  Since I can't reliably get setuptools to
> > work, I thought I'd just "cp -r" the "vobject" subdirectory from your
> > source tar file.  Do you think there would be any problems with that?
> 
> To the best of my recollection, I'm not using setuptools APIs for resources in anything but tests.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey

Yes, cp -r seems to work OK.

Bill