On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: > So I prefer to hold it and have a solid implementation in the stldib. The > only thing I am asking is to retain ourselves to do *anything* in distutils > and continue to declare it frozen, because I know it will be tempting to do > stuff there...
That policy has been a bit annoying. Gentoo has been carrying patches forever to improve compilation with C++ stuff (mostly about correctly passing on environment variables), and forward-porting them on every release gets tedious, but the packaging/distutils2 effort has made it harder to get them included in plain distutils. I understand there shouldn't be crazy patching in distutils, but allowing it to inch forward a little would make the lives of the Gentoo Python team easier, at least. Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ 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
