Installation via pip, as indicated in the `Python Packaging User's Guide <https://packaging.python.org/installing/>`_, is the officially-supported mechanism for installing Setuptools, and this recommendation is now explicit in the much more concise README.
Other edits and tweaks were made to the documentation. The codebase is unchanged.
33.0.0
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* 619: Removed support for the ``tag_svn_revision`` distribution option. If Subversion tagging support is still desired, consider adding the functionality to setuptools_svn in setuptools_svn 2.
32.3.1
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* 866: Use ``dis.Bytecode`` on Python 3.4 and later in ``setuptools.depends``.
32.3.0
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* 889: Backport proposed fix for disabling interpolation in distutils.Distribution.parse_config_files.
32.2.0
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* 884: Restore support for running the tests under `pytest-runner <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-runner>`_ by ensuring that PYTHONPATH is honored in tests invoking a subprocess.
32.1.3
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* 706: Add rmtree compatibility shim for environments where rmtree fails when passed a unicode string.