Use setuptools?

[phaer]

Hi,

Maybe I am missing something, but it looks line only a single line needs to be changed
to use setuptools:

-from distutils.core import setup
+from setuptools import setup

which would enable users to generate a wheel with

python3 setup.py bdist_wheel

They issue I've had was that I tried to mirror packages in internal, branch-specific pypi repositories for a CI system and twine complained that the .tar.gz from pypi.python.org did not include meta data in the package.

What do you think? Are there any drawbacks or difficulties? I'd be glad to help :)

[SecT0uch]

Maybe you should try to make a PR

[phaer]

Or maybe you should? Sorry, I mostly opened the issue to help others who depend on PyPDF2 and are trying to build a wheel, but I don't really feel like adding another PR which won't ever be merged to what seems to be a dead project with over 60 open PRs.

[SecT0uch]

You seem to know what you're talking about while I don't know setuptools so much.
Anyway it seems indeed to be a dead project