[Python-Dev] Raising objections

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> I'm not sure whether distutils is really that
> badly broken. But an earlier poster seemed to be
> saying that he had great difficulty finding anything
> that could be changed without breaking something
> that someone relied on. It's hard to fix something
> if you can't change it at all.

That's not been my experience with modifying distutils.
I fixed several bugs over the years, and always found
a way to fix them (or, rather, the contributor whose
patch I committed found a fix). OTOH, I never tried to
extend the architecture (but never had a need to, either).

Regards,
Martin