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Author georg.brandl
Recipients barry, benjamin.peterson, doko, georg.brandl, loewis
Date 2010-09-10.10:11:03
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I'm not in favor of this change.  PEP 3179 was accepted because it presented an optional additional feature that doesn't break compatibility.

For example, build tools of third-party external modules that do not use distutils would break.
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