So, I had opened up a PR (#563) to add README.rst to the distutils readme list. Turns out, I didn't read the devguide correctly, and there needed to be an open issue first. Oops. Then I found bpo-11913 (https://bugs.python.org/issue11913), which said: This would be easy to fix, but as it would be considered a new feature, it can’t go into distutils, which is frozen. I interpreted this as being "frozen to new features"...but I can't find any info about that. Anywhere. The devguide doesn't even remotely mention this. A Google search only gives me information on how to freeze modules *using* distutils, which is hardly helpful. FWIW, no one on the PR seemed to mention that, either. If distutils is indeed frozen, shouldn't it be documented somewhere in the devguide? -- Ryan (ライアン) Yoko Shimomura > ryo (supercell/EGOIST) > Hiroyuki Sawano >> everyone else http://refi64.com/