On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:04 AM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > As I read it, Nick's thought wasn't that distutils2 would help the OP, > but that the OP could help Distutils2 and the community by taking his > use case to the developers and making sure that that use case is > supported before the release of packaging in 3.3.
A little of both, actually. (I don't know either distutils or distutils2 well enough to know precisely what the latter handles better, I just know that it is designed to be easier to extend without being as fragile as custom commands in distutils) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com