[Distutils] setuptools 0.6b2 released

Kevin Dangoor dangoor at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 20:16:54 CEST 2006


On 6/1/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> (By the way: setuptools 0.6 is probably not going in the 2.5 stdlib; after
> lots of discussion on Python-Dev, it's fairly clear that some 0.7 release
> should be the earliest version to go in, once the "nest" tools are
> done.  Practically speaking, that probably means waiting until Python 2.6,
> due to the lead time that would be needed to get adequate field testing of
> the "nest" tools once they're written.)

That's unfortunate, though I can certainly understand the rationale.
Based on feedback I've seen on the TG list, ability to easily manage
eggs is a fairly common desire.

Kevin


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