[Distutils] setup.py clean questions

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "TH" == Thomas Heller <thomas.heller@ion-tof.com> writes:

  >> A meta-question, of course, is what the current status of
  >> documentation is.  I can't find any mention of the clean command
  >> in the documentation on python.org.  Is anyone currently working
  >> on these?
  >>
  TH> Not currently. The situation is desperate.  We're all waiting
  TH> for Greg.

  TH> There are a lot of other commands not documented at all, only
  TH> the online help 'setup.py install_data --help'.

  TH> Even worse: Several options to the setup function are not
  TH> mentioned anywhere.

  TH> Although I'm not the right person to write docs (not beeing a
  TH> native english speaker), and I don't have any qualities as
  TH> author, I don't have any Latex experience, I'm in the process of
  TH> convincing me to at least write _some_ docs for some of these.

Is there anything I can do to help convince you?  I do not follow this
list closely and only understand how to do very simple things with
distutils.  I've been waiting for documentation to learn the rest.

I'm sure there are lots of people who can help with markup and copy
editing, but fewer who can describe what the code actually does.

Jeremy