On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:28:01AM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
Hi folks --
I wonder if anyone has strong opinions as to which version(s) of Python the Distutils should support/require. I've found a number of silly little bugs in the 1.5.1 library (I'm coding on my home PC, which isn't running the latest beta... yet) that have been fixed in 1.5.2. The temptation is to assume that everyone is running 1.5.2, and if they're not... too bad.
The alternative is to allow (at least) 1.5.1, and provide reimplementations of the buggy functions so that Distutils can work on pre-1.5.2 Pythons.
Well, how about grabbing the fixed versions out of 1.5.2, shoving them into a sub-package (Distutils.Fixed), and then just loading the correct ones on startup? I don't think there's anything in the 1.5.2 library that can't be used under 1.5.1. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli ``Television is bubble-gum for | petrilli@amber.org the mind.''-Frank Lloyd Wright