On 02/12/2010 23:01, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

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I'm just getting tired having to talk to
five projects just to make a single change to the build infrastructure
available to the Python community.

The very best hope of resolving that particular problem is distutils2. :-)

distutils2 is *already* available to the Python community, and whether or not there is a fixed release date it will have betas and then a 1.0 release in the foreseeable future. The team working on it has made an enormous amount of progress. We're much better off as a development community putting our support and energy into distutils2 rather than pining for evolution of distutils.