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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:48 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> 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.

This points to at least part of the problem: there is very little  
useful documentation on how to extend, or even use, distutils.

Ronald
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