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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Greg Ewing schrieb:
> Which it *shouldn't* have to do. Timestamp checking
> is fundamental to any kind of build process. It
> should be built into the very foundations of the tool,
> not left for each extension to re-invent separately.

And indeed, distutils already has support for that:
distutils.dep_util offers a couple of routines that
do time-stamp checking. You don't have to reinvent,
but you do have to specify what should happen when
some file is newer than some other file. distutils
cannot know this.

Regards,
Martin