Well, it's been about a week since I announced the first bundle of Distutils code. Haven't heard much back yet, so I assume that it has worked for those of you who tried it. Has anyone really dived in and started poking around the code? If so, you must have stumbled across some of the difficulties I had, including: * it doesn't seem like there's a way to control whether 'compile' generates .pyc or .pyo files * worse, it doesn't look like there's even a way to find out what 'compile' will generate! * the command options describing installation directories are haphazard at best. The problem is, I know pretty much what to call platform-specific library directories: "install_platlib", "install_site_platlib", and so forth. That seems in keeping with the Python Makefiles. But I don't really know what to call non-platform-specific library directories. I take solace in knowing that I am not alone; Perl's MakeMaker just calls them "INSTALLLIBDIR", "INSTALLSITELIB", and so forth, which is where my cop-out of "install_lib" and "install_site_lib" came from. But this isn't really satisfactory... anyone got better ideas? * how do we handle copying file metadata under Mac OS? do the copy routines in distutils.util work under Windows as well as they do under Unix? (the code is mostly stolen from the standard shutil module, so if it works then my copying stuff should) * how should we deal with "wildcard" listing of modules in setup.py? Even for a moderate sized distribution like Distutils, it's already obvious that explicitly listing every module in the distribution is a no-go. See the comments in setup.py for some of my thinking on this matter. More importantly, has anyone gotten deeply confused by trying to associate the code with my two-month-old design proposal? I still need to revisit that document to make sure I haven't grossly violated any of its principles (and change the principles to match the violation if so ;-), so if anybody is getting confused it's probably not just you. Hope to hear some comments soon! Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@cnri.reston.va.us Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive voice: +1-703-620-8990 x287 Reston, Virginia, USA 20191-5434 fax: +1-703-620-0913