[Distutils] Installing scripts

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 1, 2004, at 9:23 PM, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:56 pm, Mark Hammond wrote:
>> I was replying to your original '--strip-extensions' idea, so it would
>> apply to whatever files you had in mind originally <wink>.
>
> Ah; that was specific to scripts.  So let's not muck with the plain 
> text
> files.  ;-)

Just throwing this out here.. but how about NEVER removing extensions, 
but also (optionally) making symlinks to the filename sans extension of 
scripts if the platform+filesystem supports symlinks?  That would make 
most people happy, right?

-bob
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