[Distutils] should I use distutils for a gnome-applet?

[Eric S. Johansson]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> zc.buildout's main improvement over
> make is the use of Python as it's scripting language.

speaking as someone who has detested make from the minute I encountered 
itsome 30 years ago, I think this is a big improvement.  But it also 
makes me wonder why didn't you use scons?  It seems like it does 
everything make it does only in a more easily understood way and has an 
established user base.

for me the main resistance to using scons is that bumpy case words are 
significant accessibility impediment.  For example, how would you 
pronounce "Build" and "build"?  For most people they sound exactly the 
same.  To differentiate requires a lot of additional noise either spoken 
or heard.

---eric