though you should be careful about putting arbitrarily expensive
operations in your setup script. Unlike, say, Autoconf-style configure
scripts, the setup script may be run multiple times in the course of
-building and installing your module distribution. If you need to
-insert potentially expensive processing steps into the Distutils
-chain, see section~\ref{extending} on extending the Distutils.
+building and installing your module distribution.
If all you want to do is distribute a module called \module{foo},
contained in a file \file{foo.py}, then your setup script can be as
(Although a better way to do this is probably to override the standard
\command{bdist\_rpm} command with one that writes whatever else you want
-to the \file{.spec} file; see section~\ref{extending} for information on
-extending the Distutils.)
+to the \file{.spec} file.)
\subsection{Creating Windows Installers}