<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 5, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>I apologize for my part in this, but moving forward I think that if it's possible to patch and release a setuptools that works with Python 2.6.3 /and/ earlier Python 2.6.x's, then that should happen asap. If that's not possible, then we might need to revert the distutils change in a quick Python 2.6.4.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I thought the whole point of the Distribute project was that we couldn't _get_ a new setuptools release and, so, had to fork.</div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully, with this motivation, we'll get a new setuptools "one more time!" and make the transition to Distribute a little more controlled.</div><div><br></div><div>Fast, but controlled.</div><div><br></div><div>S</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>