[Distutils] updated SF patch

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "AMK" == Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org> writes:

  AMK> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:43:24PM -0400, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
  >> Good point.  Is the core API documented anywhere?  I can't tell
  >> what is intended to be part of the API and what is accidentally
  >> exposed by the implementation.

  AMK> No reference docs were ever written, AFAIK, so we'll just have
  AMK> to follow Python convention: methods prefixed with an
  AMK> underscore are private, otherwise public.

I'm wondering more about the goal of preserving backwards
compatibility of an undocumented interface for extension writers.  How
many extensions have been written?  Do we have any idea how many
people use this or would be affected?

If it's just a handful of people, I wonder if it would be easier to
trying to define a small API that they can rely on and give up on
backwards compatibility.

not-inteding-to-deliberately-incite-riot-ly y'rs,
Jeremy