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Author steve.dower
Recipients Ateik Al-Zehla, Matt.Hickford, Sam Miller, Tod Haren, dstufft, eric.araujo, hanbaj, marcelotduarte, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2016-11-03.15:46:58
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That sounds like a great feature for setuptools.

Core distutils is highly focused on what is needed for the core product, and we are very much trying to avoid bloating it, whereas setuptools is free to add extensions wherever necessary and make them available on earlier versions of Python.

The setuptools issue tracker is at https://github.com/pypa/setuptools
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2016-11-03 15:46:58steve.dowersetrecipients: + steve.dower, paul.moore, tim.golden, eric.araujo, Matt.Hickford, zach.ware, dstufft, Ateik Al-Zehla, Tod Haren, marcelotduarte, hanbaj, Sam Miller
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