[Distutils] Add RPM-friendly Record Option

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:25 AM 9/29/04 -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:44:34AM +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> >I'm new here. I submitted a patch for your kind review that spews out an
> >RPM-consumable list including %dir and %lang attributes.  The concept
> >could be expanded further.
>
>Any comments on this patch?  symbiont has been doing a lot of work with
>RPMs, and has run into some issues where he needs some more features than
>the normal record file provides.  Any objections to my accepting this
>patch?

Isn't distutils supposed to be compatible with older versions of Python, 
e.g. 1.5.2?  The list comprehension won't work, and it removes a minor 
optimization ('if self.root:').

I don't see an issue with adding the feature, or in moving the write-record 
facility to a separate method, but the changes to existing feature(s) 
should be reversed, IMO.