[Distutils] How to handle launcher script importability?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 13 02:01:00 CEST 2013


PJ Eby wrote:
> (Granted, I can see reasons for not wanting to use the same extension
> for source and zipped versions, mostly in the area of tools other than
> pylauncher, but if you do have different extensions then there have to
> be *four*, due to console vs. windowed and source vs. zipped.)

Just a thought -- is there any need in this day and age
for extensions to be limited to 3 characters?

Going beyond that would give us more room to define a
consistent scheme for the various combinations.

-- 
Greg


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