[Distutils] moving things forward

[Greg Ewing]

Chris Barker wrote:

> OK -- that's more or less my thought -- if it's  python that gets run, 
> then you've got your config generator built in -- why not?

The difference is that the config generator only gets run
once, when the config info needs to get produced. If the
config file itself is executable, it needs to be run each
time the config info gets *used* -- which could be by a
tool for which running arbitrary python code is awkward or
undesirable.

-- 
Greg