Distutils question

[Fernando Pérez]

Michael Hudson wrote:

> A terrible pun.  I would explain, but then I wouldn't have to shoot
> you because it would have already killed you.

got it. As I said, dumb foreigner... :)

> 
>> btw, the recent postings to the distutils mailing list seem to point
>> to improvements, and the current docs (on the web, not the ones from
>> python 2.1) are indeed better. So I might wait out for 2.2 to come
>> out before complaining too loudly.
> 
> Feel free (hurrah!).
> 
>> I really hope distutils fully matures, it seems very nice but
>> yesterday trying to do things outside of the very narrowly defined
>> options of stetup() felt like a huge PITA. Maybe I'm just dumb.
> 
> I think that's fair enough.  The code for distutils is generally quite
> nice, though, so once you've got some idea how it works, sticking your
> head into the source becomes an option.  At least that's what I've
> found (although I don't actually *use* distutils much, I just try to
> close bug reports on it :).

Well, 2.2 is just officially out. So I'll see if the new distutils docs are 
enough to soothe my aching soul, and otherwise I'll go and moan at the 
distutils-sig.

Thanks,

f.