[Distutils] High level options interface

[Fred L. Drake]

John Skaller writes:
 > BTW: One weakness of this interfaces is that there
 > is no provision for creating an object library 
 > (archive, ar, etc etc).

  Is this needed?  I don't see where, unless we really want to
abstract everything in the build process.  Essentially, we end
building our own make utility, which I think we should attempt to
avoid -- enough people have done that already.


  -Fred

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