[Compiler-sig] Re: Availability of my peephole optimizer

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Skip Montanaro writes:
 > Is Greg Ward or other distutils expert seeing this (how about Greg
 > Stein...)?  If so, would you care to comment on the ability of distutils to
 > handle patches to the core distribution?  Is it worth considering making
 > this stuff available via distutils at this point given that it requires mods
 > to so many files in the core distribution?

  I'd say that it doesn't make sense.  Perhaps there could be two
packages: one for modifications to the core and one for everything
else.  But that only makes sense if "everything else" is usable
without the core changes.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	  <fdrake at acm.org>
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