
Hello, the current Distutils trunk in Python is now in theory compatible with Python 2.3, as I fixed all the broken tests. My goal is to make a standalone release anyone can use, by replacing their Python's distutils with the newest one. This is important to speed up distutils improvements. There's one more task I need to address in order to make a standalone release of Distutils that will be usable under Python 2.3->2.6 : fix the problem described in this thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-February/011016.html otherwise all packages based on setuptools will be broken. I don't have a solution for that problem yet, and I am not sure if this should be adressed in setuptools, or in distutils, or on both sides. Although, I have seen some other problems along the way, and the test coverage is not sufficient to see everything. Any help on this will be appreciated to fix all the problem and improve the test coverage. If someone wants to give a hand, it's quite simple. 1/ install the standalone Distutils version located here: $ svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/distutils/trunk/ distutils $ cd distutils $ python setup.py install 2/ remove the original distutils package located in Python lib 3/ run an installation (or anything) of a setuptools-based package 4/ report all the bugs here :) Thanks Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/
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