Differences between distribute, distutils, setuptools and distutils2?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6344...

Question links:
[SymPy]: http://sympy.org/

Accepted answer links:
[Python Packaging User Guide]: https://packaging.python.org/
[Project Summaries]: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/k.../
[It sees regular releases.]: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/relea...
[Official docs]: https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/lat.../
[Pypi page]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
[GitHub repo]: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools
[setuptools]: https://packaging.python.org/key_project...
[Official docs]: http://scikit-build.readthedocs.io/en/la.../
[Pypi page]: https://pypi.org/project/scikit-build/
[GitHub repo]: https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-b...
[scikit-build]: https://packaging.python.org/key_project...
[Official Docs]: http://pythonhosted.org/distlib/
[Pypi page]: https://pypi.org/project/distlib
[Bitbucket repo]: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/distlib
[distlib]: https://packaging.python.org/key_project...
[Official Docs]: https://packaging.pypa.io/
[Pypi page]: https://pypi.org/project/packaging
[GitHub repo]: https://github.com/pypa/packaging
[packaging]: https://packaging.python.org/key_project...
[Official docs]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/distut...
[distutils]: https://packaging.python.org/key_project...
[Project Summaries]: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/k.../
[What is the difference between ]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/41573587/247...

Answer 2 links:
[The fate of Distutils – Pycon Summit + Packaging Sprint detailed report]: http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2010/03/.../
[A Quick Diff between Distutils and Distutils2]: http://wokslog.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/.../

Answer 3 links:
[Distribute]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute

Answer 4 links:
[conda]: http://conda.pydata.org/docs/
[environments]: http://conda.pydata.org/docs/intro.html

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