On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:15:54AM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
On 31 August 2000, Harry Henry Gebel said:
I was wondering if it might be a good idea to put a function in Distutils that could query if the currently installed version has certain abilities. Each ability could be assigned a name, and it could be implemented very simply: I'm skeptical. This could be useful for situations where you need version X because feature foo was added, but what about bug fixes? The ability to not crash when compiling extensions described the "old way" (pre-Extension object) on Windows is certainly important; isn't it just easier to say, "I need Distutils 0.9.2"?
My concern was for some future time when everybody who makes python packages uses Distutils, but most of them will probably not have been members of the Distutils SIG long enough to know when different features were implemented. I also have doubts it would be useful (or used) enough to justify putting it in; but I figured it wouldn't hurt to get people's opinions. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware