[issue13994] incomplete revert in 2.7 Distutils left two copies of customize_compiler

Éric Araujo report at bugs.python.org
Fri Apr 20 17:32:19 CEST 2012


Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

[MAL]
> I know that distutils development was stopped (even though I don't consider that a good thing)
This is OT, but could you tell a bit more?  The freeze appears to me to have been a necessary decision due to the impossibility of making non-trivial changes without breaking setup scripts or projects such as mxSetup.

> but since the code changes were let into the wild, we have to deal with it properly now.
This I agree with.  Saturday or Sunday I will have the time to commit a fix and test.

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assignee: ned.deily -> eric.araujo

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