Binary generation with distutils? (Freeze, py2exe, etc.)

[Martin v. Loewis]

Kragen Sitaker <kragen at pobox.com> writes:

> martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis) writes:
> > That is certainly possible; freeze would be the obvious choice for
> > such a mechanism (IMO). Alas, distutils is unmaintained, so don't wait
> > for anybody else to implement it for you.
> 
> That's rather shocking.  How did distutils get to be unmaintained?

Mainly by the initial authors not having enough time to do the
full-time job that distutils maintenance means. They didn't run away,
nor did they stop working on it when they find time. It just means
that if you report a bug or request a feature, that somebody will look
at your report in this millenium.

Regards,
Martin