On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> wrote: [..]
Do we really want to change distutils to solve a problem of a third party packaging system when the problem was created by the very same third party in the first place? In other words: Should you spend your precious development time with fixing a problem that isn't our fault? The decision to split the header files into a separate package, that isn't installed by default, has already created tons of bad user experience in the past. Do you want to endorse the split even further?
I didn't know the split story went like this. I took it like the "natural" split everyone agreed on, and I saw this distutils <-> Makefile link like something to fix. So, it sounds like a bad idea now :) Tarek.