Thanks for "biting this bullet" Ralf. A couple comments (directed more to
the "peanut gallery" than to Ralf): obviously, if anyone else besides David
C. has the expertise, please help him, Ralf, and indeed all of us, on this;
B) I looked at this a little while ago, and reference/distutils.rst just
This request is mainly addressed to David Cournapeau I guess.
I wrote docstrings for pretty much all the distutils items not marked
"unimportant" in the doc wiki. Pretty much all the info I got from reading
the code and comments in it, plus a little bit from reading the
distutils.rst file and the