> Changes to distutils itself are fairly pointless, since the earliest > possible date for publication of any such changes is now as part of > Python 3.5 in 2015. The sheer impracticality of that approach when > plenty of people are still running Python 2.6 is why we're going > through the somewhat painful exercise of decoupling the preferred > build system from the standard library :) > > So, at this point, the appropriate place to make such a change is in > setuptools: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools > > That will allow it to be made in a way that supports Python 2.6+, > whereas a distutils change won't really help anyone.
A point well made :) . Will do that. Mike -- Michael Jansen http://michael-jansen.biz
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