[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 21 13:55:46 CEST 2006


Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> So, this is a nice 
> example of how complex it can be to extend the distutils in ways that don't 
> break random popular packages.

It's probably also an example of what happens when
something doesn't have a well-documented extension
interface -- nobody can tell what's an implementation
detail and what isn't.

--
Greg


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