[Distutils] Tests for distutils

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Andrew Kuchling started writing up some ideas for functional tests for 
distutils some time ago in the Python wiki:

    http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/DistutilsTesting

Since nothing appears to have followed on from that, I've gone ahead and added 
a couple of simple unit/integration tests to distutils.  This is done partly 
so I can add new tests as I work on the various bits of distutils I need to 
touch to implement the improvements I'd like to see, but also so that all the 
distutils developers can help contribute to the long-term stability of the 
codebase.

Anthony Baxter did a lot of work to document many of the modules that form the 
distutils; now we need tests to ensure that those interfaces don't break!  
Feel free to review the documentation (part of Python 2.4):

    http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/dist/api-reference.html

and contribute tests!  (Or improve the documentation, or fix bugs, or...)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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