10 Mar
1999
10 Mar
'99
11:35 a.m.
Greg,
My inclination is that 1.5.1 should be supported. Heck, it's still
the current stable release!
Even though 1.5.2 will probably be stable before distutils, 1.5.1
just isn't old enough to ignore. I think any compatibility hacks that
are needed can go in a module "distutils.compat" (or some such) that
gets imported by the "main" distutils module. The compat module can
deal with any version checking and update installation it needs to;
this makes the updates as transparent as possible to the rest of the
code, and allows really old things to be taken out later.
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr.