[Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Greg Ewing schrieb:
>> I could see it being a lot easier to maintain e.g. C 
>> compiler plugins for zc.buildout than trying to keep maintaining the 
>> distutils' compiler framework indefinitely.
> 
> This sounds good. We definitely need *something* with
> a more modular and better documented architecture than
> distutils.

I definitely disagree. Why are you calling distutils non-modular?
It was designed to be modular and extensible, and, indeed, it is.
If it is not documented well, the solution shouldn't be to replace
it, but instead to document it.

Regards,
Martin