[Distutils] Re: Access to Python config info

[David Ascher]

Robin:

> Another vote for impeac^H^H^H^H^H^Ha separate .py file to store this.
> Mostly it's better since it allows tweaks to be made easily, (say the
> installpath changes, or a new compiler), a hundred different little
> things can happen at a local site. It'll also help during the
> development phases of this tool to have visibility into what's actually
> happening.

Same here.  Furthermore, one can imagine writing a program which generates
sysconfig.py for distributed heteregeneous systems, or even writing a
sysconfig.py module which *does stuff* at import time.  Why limit
ourselves...

--david