[Distutils] Questions about distutils strategy

[Robin Dunn]

> 5) The audience is Python end-users "in general", and the product is some
> mix of Python and C extension modules.  This is hard.  You have to ship
> binaries to meet Windows expectations; you have to ship source to meet
> Unixish ones; and the more popular Linux gets, the more the Unix dweebs
will
> be left whining without a clue about the changing nature of their customer
> base <0.7 wink -- but over on Python-Help the sight of a Linux user who
> doesn't know how to compile is no longer rare>.
>

Or who don't WANT to compile and would "much rather just use an RPM."  I've
had several of both types of people using wxPython.

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