Thanks to @gforcada base pull request and given some hints and reviews from others (see https://github.com/plone/buildout.coredev/pull/86) we now are using zc.buildout 2.4.0 and setuptools 18.0.1 in Plone 5.0. Dreams come true 
1 Like
\o/ (I just configured community to send me emails after all this time, so I am seeing this 
)