> On Sep 29, 2017, at 11:21 PM, xoviat <xov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't think writing shims for distutils is as easy as you make it sound. In 
> fact, I'd venture to say that it's an intractable problem because of the 
> difficulty of knowing the number of distutils hacks that are in the wild.
> 


For the compiler code? It’s probably pretty tractable, which is I think the 
main thing that needs maintenance.



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