[Distutils] Re: New Distutils snapshot

[Thomas Heller]

> Known problems that I'd like to fix for 1.0.4:
> 
>     * the examples (PyXML, PIL) are for old versions of their
> respective packages.
> 
>     * the test suite (not included in the snapshot, but available from
> CVS) is seriously broken.
>     
>     * fix the bdist_dumb relative path problem
> 
> Please point out any other issues, or, if you have CVS access, go
> ahead and fix them.
> 

I assume 1.0.4 would then be the (still 1.5.2 compatible) CVS HEAD version?

In this case I want to add documentation for the recent bdist_wininst
improvements.  I would also consider SF bug #638595, because it also
has bitten me.

How much time do we have?

Thomas