[Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Josiah Carlson schrieb:
> In my own experience, I have found that with the packages I usually end
> up having to ship (source files with related data), sdist is the only
> distutils command that gets it right.  Any of the bdist commands bork
> the Windows (.msi) Python installation (data files go into site-packages,
> source goes into python binary path), and I've been too afraid to try
> any of the linux bdist options (would require a tedious backup and
> restore of a VM).

So did you make bug reports about these issues (in the abstract, it's
hard to see what is happening, and why it is: what precisely is
"source", and what is the "python binary path" that is going into?;
the bug report should provide these details).

Without useful bug reports, there is no chance of improvements.
With useful bug reports, there is unfortunately still little chance
of improvements, since distutils is unmaintained. However, these
issues seem to be easily fixable (if they aren't a pilot errors).

Regards,
Martin