[issue3871] cross and native build of python for mingw32 with packaging

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> added the comment:

eric,

if you recall there was some discussion that it was acceptable to use distutils but *only* for python 2.N (on the basis that its use is so well entrenched that it would be impossible to force python2.N applications to start using distutils2), and i agreed wholeheartedly with you that the expectation to use distutils2 would be reasonable for python3.N

just as an aside: have all python 3.N packaging scripts, for all python-dev scripts *and* all 3rd party packages world-wide, been using distutils2 by default instead of distutils?

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