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On 26 May 2015 23:25, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
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\> On 26 May 2015 at 13:55, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower@microsoft.com> wrote:
\> > The builds I am responsible for include it because someone reported an issue
\> > and was persistent and helpful enough that I fixed it for them.
\> >
\> > That said, until MinGW agrees on a stable branch/version/fork, there seems
\> > to be a good chance that the shipped lib won't work for some people. If this
\> > is what's happened here, I see it as a good enough reason to stop shipping
\> > the lib and to add instructions on generating it instead (the gendef/dlltool
\> > dance).
\>
\> Agreed. If shipping it helps, then great. If it's going to cause bug
\> reports, let's go back to the status quo of not having it. The
\> instructions for generating it were in the old distutils docs, now
\> removed in the cleanup / redirection to packaging.python.org. I'm
\> inclined to just leave it undocumented - the people who need it know
\> how to do it or can find it, whereas documenting the process implies a
\> level of support that we're not yet really able to provide.

The old distutils docs aren't gone, the top level links just moved to the distutils package docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html

I kept them (with the same deep link URLs) because I know there's stuff in there that isn't currently documented anywhere else. I moved them to a more obscure location because there's also stuff in there that's thoroughly outdated, and it's a non-trivial task to figure out which is which and move the still useful stuff to a more appropriate home :)

Cheers,
Nick.