[Distutils] How to actually use distutils?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Skip Montanaro writes:
 > I thought the CVS repository in .../Lib/distutils was a symlink to the real
 > thing, so any documentation files it contains should have been extracted by
 > "cvs update -d .", right?

  It's a symlink to the distutils package, not the whole thing.  The
examples, documentation, and README type stuff aren't part of the
Python CVS tree at this time.


  -Fred

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