On 26 May 2015 23:25, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 26 May 2015 at 13:55, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > The builds I am responsible for include it because someone reported an issue > > and was persistent and helpful enough that I fixed it for them. > > > > That said, until MinGW agrees on a stable branch/version/fork, there seems > > to be a good chance that the shipped lib won't work for some people. If this > > is what's happened here, I see it as a good enough reason to stop shipping > > the lib and to add instructions on generating it instead (the gendef/dlltool > > dance). > > Agreed. If shipping it helps, then great. If it's going to cause bug > reports, let's go back to the status quo of not having it. The > instructions for generating it were in the old distutils docs, now > removed in the cleanup / redirection to packaging.python.org. I'm > inclined to just leave it undocumented - the people who need it know > how to do it or can find it, whereas documenting the process implies a > level of support that we're not yet really able to provide.
The old distutils docs aren't gone, the top level links just moved to the distutils package docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html I kept them (with the same deep link URLs) because I know there's stuff in there that isn't currently documented anywhere else. I moved them to a more obscure location because there's also stuff in there that's thoroughly outdated, and it's a non-trivial task to figure out which is which and move the still useful stuff to a more appropriate home :) Cheers, Nick.
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