[Distutils] PYPI and packages for Python 2.x and 3.x

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:43 PM 6/3/2008 +0200, Jesus Cea wrote:
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>Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>|> Binary distributions have the name of the platform it was built on in
>|> the filename.
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>I know. But I want to distribute a tar.gz source package. I can't
>distribute binaries for 20 different platforms/python versions.

My suggestion: make a setup.py that simply checks the running version 
of Python, and then execfiles 'setup2.py' or 'setup3.py' 
accordingly.  That should be relatively future-proof.

Personally, I'm not aware that anyone has successfully run setuptools 
on Python 3 anyway, so it's likely moot.  (In truth, I'm not sure how 
much *distutils* has been tested on Python 3.)