Pyscaffold breaks with setuptools version 39

[cpaulik]

I get an error like

      File "/tmp/pip-build-gwh071/damsat/.eggs/PyScaffold-2.5.8-py2.7.egg/pyscaffold/utils.py", line 239, in check_setuptools_version
        "Your setuptools version is too old (<12). "
    RuntimeError: Your setuptools version is too old (<12). Use `pip install -U setuptools` to upgrade.
    If you have the deprecated `distribute` package installed remove it or update to version 0.7.3.

The reason is that SetuptoolsVersion was removed. See https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/master/CHANGES.rst#v3900

[FlorianWilhelm]

Thanks for reporting. That means one would need to increment the setuptools_scm version to v1.16.0 and use their fix for PyScaffold too or rather import it. I'll be only able to fix this tomorrow afternoon, but looking forward to a PR if you like to.

[cpaulik]

I really know too little to be able to make a PR quickly and I don't have time today to do the research.

[JWDobken]

The issue is not hard to solve, but you and I do not have the permission apparently.

[FlorianWilhelm]

@JWDobken, you have the permission in the sense that you can create a PR.

[JWDobken]

I have never ever done this before as well :|, soo
Please find my first open source PR #149 ever

[scorphus]

I'll create a PR to the v2.x branch. We still use Python 2.

[FlorianWilhelm]

Thanks a lot folks for all your support. I just pushed a version 2.5.9rc1 to PyPI, so please check if that works for you and let me know.
@scorphus, thanks for your PR. I saw it a little late and already had something in progress which is quite similar to your solution. I added you to the list of contributors and are looking forward to more contributions from you :-)

[cpaulik]

Thanks.

It seems to work fine.

But it means I will be upgrading and making new releases for all my older packages that are still based on pyscaffold 2.4.x.

I'm a little annoyed by the setuptools team for removing this just for the sake of changing it to another name.