[Python-ideas] Clang in distutils TAKE 2

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:59:29 -0400
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 8/25/2013 4:50 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> >> On 8/25/2013 2:03 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:
> >>> You can just submit this on http://bugs.python.org/.
> >>
> >> Please don't unless and until it is really possible.
> >
> > It's a simple feature request. If this isn't actually possible, it
> > just gets rejected.
> 
> But is it possible? That seems uncertain. I think requestors should try 
> to determine that first, especially when there is already a thread going.

The bug tracker is the place for that.

> There are 1144 open non-doc features requests on the tracker. Many have 
> not been touched in years.

Yes, distutils not having an actual maintainer is an ongoing problem :-)

Regards

Antoine.