Recently, "M.-A. Lemburg"
Hmm, I think we have to do something about the development process for distutils. AFAIK, Andrew is the current distutils champion -- perhaps we ought to be a little more flexible w/r to checkins and allow more people to review the distutils patches ?!
Yes, definitely. I've also had distutils Mac support miss 2.0 because of this... No critique implied, I fully understand that people have priorities, but I think we should get rid of bottlenecks if at all possible.
Mark, we won't get your patches into Python 2.2 because of the feature freeze, so there's currently no chance to check in your patches, but after 2.2 is out we could look at doing those checkins right away and perhaps even create a separate distribution of distutils before Python 2.3 goes out the door.
Hmm, personally I wouldn't object to features of this type, which will probably be of the form of a single new bdist_foobar module and little else. I know I'm taking the "no new features" dictum rather liberally for MacPython. But that might be the Amsterdammer in me, others may feel different:-) -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm