[Distutils] How can I create prebuilt distributions?

[David Ascher]

Jack Jansen wrote:
> 
> It would be nice if at some point in the future the two phases of 
> distutils (build and install) could be cleanly separated. 

+1e123

But as per my comments, you _can't_ do that without modifying a lot of 
pre-existing setup.py's.
-da