[Distutils] logging into distutils

[A. Cavallo]

Hi,
I'm playing lately with distutils (on the 2.7a branch).

This "sudden" interest has been triggered by the python bugs:

http://bugs.python.org/issue5941
http://bugs.python.org/issue5940

What I've found (IMHO) is the lack of proper logging while stepping through 
all the loops inside the code.

In fact distutils.log (the log module used internally) It is loosely written 
resembling the logging python module but missing the full elegance in the 
api: is there any reason it could not be made very similar to it?

I think this is one of the reason is not more deeply spread into the distutils 
package (a useful tool in diagnostic, IMHO).

Because I'm out of work at the moment (It might not last forever tough) I can 
do it if there is any interest and send a patch set to be reviewed.


Beside this to the people interested I can provide a binary compiled python 
version with the patches hosted on the suse build server system:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cavallo71:/python-opt/

This is totally system transparent so it can be installed and de-installed 
without impact on the host system.

Let me know your toughts please,
Antonio cavallo