Survey of complex usage of distutils.

[Anthony Baxter]

I'm currently documenting the Distutils innards (working document can
be found at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/nondist/sandbox/distutilsref).
As part of this I'm identifying bits of distutils that could be removed,
or replaced with standard python modules. The two modules most likely 
at the moment are distutils.log and distutils.fancy_getopt. 

The problem is that no-one knows what people are using today from distutils.
There's never been an "official" API, so it's possible that there's wild
and wacky usage of distutils internals. If you have written a setup.py that
is using more than just the basic distutils.core functionality, could you
please contact me and let me know what other functionality you're using?
Similarly, if you know of a package that uses more complex distutils code,
I'd like to hear about it.

Thanks,
Anthony