
Jan. 31, 2000
9:36 a.m.
On 28 January 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. said:
If that's the only dependency we need, that's all that we need. I don't think we need to introduce dependencies artificially. If it works with 1.5.2 on Unix & 1.6 on Windows, I'd be quite happy. With the proposed timeline for 1.6, that seems quite acceptable.
Don't forget, Distutils seems to work fine on Windows as long as cl.exe is in your PATH. I agree that it would be better to be more ironclad (ie. get the VC++ bin directory from the registry if possible), but for now it seems to be muddling along (modulo stupid bugs in my code). Greg