[Distutils] setup.py clean questions

[Thomas Heller]

Jeremy:
> >>>>> "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
Maybe we can join forces here on distutils and post documentation,
other distutil developers can comment and improve it?

Thomas