Greg Ewing wrote: > I'm not sure whether distutils is really that > badly broken. But an earlier poster seemed to be > saying that he had great difficulty finding anything > that could be changed without breaking something > that someone relied on. It's hard to fix something > if you can't change it at all.
That's not been my experience with modifying distutils. I fixed several bugs over the years, and always found a way to fix them (or, rather, the contributor whose patch I committed found a fix). OTOH, I never tried to extend the architecture (but never had a need to, either). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
