[Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Nov 12 02:17:26 CET 2009


Robert Kern wrote:
> With all respect to Greg Ward and the rest of the original distutils 
> authors, it was a fantastic improvement over the state of affairs ten 
> years ago, but we've learned a lot about application frameworks and 
> about building software since then.

I think we knew more about it *before* then as
well. Make has been around for a lot longer, but
distutils ignores everything we've learned from
it.

-- 
Greg


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