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8. Extending Distutils
Distutils can be extended in various ways. Most extensions take the
form of new commands or replacements for existing commands. New
commands may be written to support new types of platform-specific
packaging, for example, while replacements for existing commands may
be made to modify details of how the command operates on a package.
Most extensions of the distutils are made within setup.py
scripts that want to modify existing commands; many simply add a few
file extensions that should be copied into packages in addition to
.py files as a convenience.
Most distutils command implementations are subclasses of the
Command class from distutils.cmd. New commands
may directly inherit from Command, while replacements often
derive from Command indirectly, directly subclassing the
command they are replacing. Commands are required to derive from
Command.
Release 2.4.5, documentation updated on 18 October 2006.
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