On Thursday, December 05, 2013 06:37:39 PM Michael Jansen wrote: > On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 12:33:22 PM Michael Jansen wrote: > > > 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. > > I made a proof of concept implementation (not ready to be merged) here
No one interested in that? Got no answer from the maintainers too. Mike
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