[Python-Dev] Update to Python Documentation Website Request

[Christian Heimes]

david.lyon at preisshare.net wrote:
>> That's a document describing how to use âdistutilsâ, which is what
>> every
>> recipient of Python will already have installed.
>>
>>> Can I ask that you also provide a link for windows users
>>> to my project:
>>>
>>>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythonpkgmgr/
>> That doesn't seem at all appropriate; promoting third-party packages
>> isn't at all what the above document should be doing.
> 
> Distutils was once seperate and was then included in the standard python.
> 
> So i guess that I am working with the same goal in mind.

I'm sorry to inform you that a wxWindows based solution has zero change
to get into the Python standard library ever. We are not going to add
another GUI toolkit to the core distribution. We might even remove TK
from the core and ship it as a separate package like bsddb3.

Christian