Created attachment 183337 [details] update to 36.0.1 Finally update to 36.0.1 so we can have nice things.
The unbundling of six/appdirs/packaging that was making the upgrade difficult was reverted in: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/3d0cc355fb5e8012cb8c72f0e25042a5a44f31d6
Why not USES+= zip instead of USE_GITHUB? I believe this would make the pre-configure step unneeded too?
Created attachment 183356 [details] update to 36.0.1, contd You're not wrong.
A commit references this bug: Author: antoine Date: Sun Jun 11 21:42:36 UTC 2017 New revision: 443412 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/443412 Log: Update setuptools to 36.0.1 PR: 219876 Submitted by: Johannes Jost Meixner Changes: head/devel/py27-setuptools/Makefile head/devel/py27-setuptools/distinfo