Refer to SF patch

Add apparent resolution of one open issue

pep-0229.txt

@@ -50,6 +50,21 @@ Proposal
        Setup automatically.
 
 
+Implementation
+
+    Patch #102588 on SourceForge will contain the proposed patch.
+    As of Dec. 1, the patch does the following:
+
+      * Removes the use of makesetup in building the interpreter.
+      * Hard-codes the presence of the strop, posix, and _sre modules. 
+      * Adds an empty top-level setup.py file.
+
+    Still to be done: 
+
+      * Write the top-level setup.py
+      * Handle a few tricky bits such as the signal module. 
+
+
 Unresolved Issues
  
     Do we need to make it possible to disable the 3 hard-wired modules
@@ -59,6 +74,11 @@ Unresolved Issues
     The Distutils always compile modules as shared libraries.  How do
     we support compiling them statically into the resulting Python
     binary?
+
+    [Answer: building a Python binary with the Distutils should be
+    feasible, though no one has implemented it yet.  This will need to
+    be done, though the main setup.py will probably need to implement
+    its own BuildExt subclass anyway.]
    
     makesetup and the other contents of $(LIBPL)/config need to be
     preserved for compatibility with existing modules; for how many