Ned Deily wrote:
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> And to recap the history here, there was a change in direction for Distutils during the 2.7 development cycle, as decided at the 2010 language summit, in particular to revert feature changes in Distutils for 2.7 to its 2.6.x state and, going forward, "Distutils in Python will be feature-frozen".
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> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098135.html

I know that distutils development was stopped (even though I don't
consider that a good thing), but since the code changes were let
into the wild, we have to deal with it properly now.