[Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

[Antoine Pitrou]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> distutils itself is nigh impossible to work on, since it is
underspecified, and 
> the fact it was added to the standard two years before unittest still shows in
> its test suite.

I don't have any code coverage numbers, but distutils has a sizable test
suite (and has had since Tarek started working on it):

$ ./python -m test -v test_distutils
[...]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 191 tests in 1.481s

OK (skipped=14)


Regards

Antoine.