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"? Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix bigot gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ I am deeply CONCERNED and I want something GOOD for BREAKFAST!