This was a hack used by installation methods that did not support registering new commands correctly. The commands should now work regardless of installation method (wheel, deb, NSIS installer, etc.).
@@ -1064,10 +1064,3 @@ class bdist_apps(setuptools.Command):
shutil.rmtree(temp_dir)
else:
self.announce('\tUnknown installer: {}'.format(installer), distutils.log.ERROR)
-
-def setup(**attrs):
- commandClasses = attrs.setdefault("cmdclass", {})
- commandClasses['build_apps'] = build_apps
- commandClasses['bdist_apps'] = bdist_apps
- distutils.core.setup(**attrs)