[Pythonmac-SIG] Main Python on Mac version?

[Roger Binns]

>> As long as it doesn't hurt.  And maybe a simple explanation on what 
>> PantherPythonFix does and why it's needed.  Might help people decide 
>> (hopefully, not confuse them -- I'd like to know more).
> 
> It's a bugfix to distutils, so that when you compile stuff it has a 
> higher probability of doing the right thing.  

That doesn't actually answer the question.  What is the random operation
in distutils whose operation can have its probability changed?

Roger