[Distutils] Guido's announcement of distutils

[Joe Van Andel]

I've just read Guido's description on new features in Python1.6,
including his description of distutils

http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=60533012

I'm a bit confused by the description of distutils, since it describes
software that I haven't seen yet, even though I've been using
'distutils'.  Guido describes a setup of m4 macros to generate a
setup.py, which in turn generates a Makefile.  This is a bit different
than building a setup.py, and simply running it to compile and install
extension code.

Are the distutils Guido's describes a superset of the distutils found on
cvs.python.org/projects/cvsroot?   Or have we forked distutils for
Python 1.6?




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Joe VanAndel  	          
National Center for Atmospheric Research
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