[Distutils] Patch for your setuptools issue

[P.J. Eby]

At 09:39 PM 6/1/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>2009/6/1 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> > At 07:01 PM 6/1/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> >>
> >> Antoine,
> >>
> >> here's a patch for your issue.
> >
> > Hm.  Did you send this patch before?  I don't recall seeing it.
> >
>
>No, I have just created it. I can add it to setuptools issue tracker
>if you think it's useful

The idea is useful; I think there might be another way to do it now 
that you've given me the idea.  I'd prefer to do it in a way that 
doesn't copy code, i.e., by having __getattr__ return something that 
makes the distutils-level behavior the same as before, but not by 
copying the old distutils code.  That having been said, this might be 
a good patch to go in the meantime.

I am thinking, btw, that it's time to retire the 0.6 stable branch 
and begin only doing new stuff on the trunk, anyway.