Re: [Distutils] setuptools develop command garbles binary files specified as scripts setup() parameter on windows

For the record, the current draft of the python.commands extension in PEP 459 does indeed include support for reporting prebuilt commands: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0459/#the-python-commands-extension The draft metadata extensions haven't really been properly reviewed yet, though. For pip 1.6, Donald and I have been focused on hammering PEP 440 into shape.

I agree that this would help, and in fact solve the problem. But only in newer python releases.