[Distutils] Revised design proposal

[David Ascher]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Fred L. Drake wrote:
> David Ascher writes:
>  > Someone should also think about whether adding some support for registry
>  > manipulations makes sense, in the long run.
> 
>   Probably so; I guess this means it'll need to be added to the core
> Python distribution for Win32.  I'm sure a basic registry module
> wouldn't be hard to write (unless it's o.k. to abscond an existing bit 
> of code?? ;), but this is largely up to Guido (accepting it, not
> necessarily writing it) since it would have to be core.

Right.  The relevant code would have to move from Mark's distribution to
Guido's. That's why I said "in the long run".  One big advantage is it'd
make it possible to do nice installers without having to use WISE, which
is very hard to get right.

--david