[Distutils] Library instability on PyPI and impact on OpenStack

[Daniel Holth]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article
> <CAG8k2+74cUh6p_mmgvS2hLKnREim_iepBQ0u7vF9dTpxk4++zw at mail.gmail.com>,
>  Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apple does (or did) something very useful by not including the stdlib
>> source code in OS X's builtin Python, making the system Python so
>> hilariously useless for development that no one would attempt it after
>> the trick has been discovered. After a few frustrating hours figuring
>> out what they've actually done it hits you "OH that Python is not for
>> me", you download a working version from python.org, and you're on
>> your way. :-P
>
> FWIW, the stdlib py files are installed as part of the Xcode Command
> Line Tools component.

Only half-serious; I come to the same conclusion for different reasons
on RHEL or Ubuntu. Plone solves it by just bundling the Python source
code to make things predictable.