[Distutils] Symlinks vs API -- question for developers

[Ian Bicking]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> I think Ian's already said this, but the API itself has to do something 
> more, and so far nobody's proposed an API that does anything "more" than 
> what setuptools does in this area, from the developer point of view.  
> (Except for the request that such an API be in the stdlib and thus avoid 
> an extra dependency...  but that of course introduces yet another 
> implementation delay, if it means a new release of Python.)

It's probably a bit easier than waiting for a release of Python -- if 
it's in a PEP, and will be in a release of Python, then the library will 
be blessed and people will pick it up much more quickly.  Realistically 
most library developers would need to add the package as a requirement 
for some time, since they won't stop supporting older versions of Python 
that don't have that package.

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