April 20, 2006
6:40 a.m.
Greg Ewing wrote:
I'm not sure whether distutils is really that badly broken. But an earlier poster seemed to be saying that he had great difficulty finding anything that could be changed without breaking something that someone relied on. It's hard to fix something if you can't change it at all.
That's not been my experience with modifying distutils. I fixed several bugs over the years, and always found a way to fix them (or, rather, the contributor whose patch I committed found a fix). OTOH, I never tried to extend the architecture (but never had a need to, either). Regards, Martin