March 10, 1999
4:35 p.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 -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives