Talin schrieb:
To that extent, it can be useful sometimes to have someone who is in the process of learning how to use the system, and who is willing to carefully analyze and write down their own experiences while doing so.
I readily agree that the documentation can be improved, and applaud efforts to do so. And I have no doubts that distutils is difficult to learn for a beginner. In Talin's remarks, there was also the suggestion that distutils is "in need of some serious refactoring". It is such remarks that get me started: it seems useless to me to make such a statement if they are not accompanied with concrete proposals what specifically to change. It also gets me upset because it suggests that all prior contributors weren't serious. Regards, Martin