
On 28 January 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. said:
As Guido pointed out at IPC8, distutils is most valuable if it doesn't need to be included with the packages that use it and doesn't need to be installed separately. So it's really not "there" until 1.6 anyway. Drop support for 1.5.2 and we're in good shape. Got that, Greg (Ward)? ;)
Yeah, I've been (slowly, quietly) moving towards that position anyways. Using all sorts of 1.6 features would make it a bit hard to develop, test, and debug the Distutils -- I guess at some point I'll have to break down and start running the CVS version of Python instead of the standard Red Hat RPM. ;-) What 1.6 features are really, absolutely necessary, though? So far I see only one: * registry access on Windows Others? Oh yeah, will the registry-access code that Robin Becker posted work under 1.5.2 with Mark's extensions installed as well as under 1.6 with built-in registry support? Greg