Ok, we've beaten the horse of what Python version to support in distutils several times, but I don't remember what was last decided. I thought it wasn't 1.5.2, though, and distutils/__init__.py still says 1.5.2.
Does anyone remember what was decided last time? I'm not at all sure what it was anymore, but I'd like to update the comment in that file to reflect current expectations.
-Fred
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
Ok, we've beaten the horse of what Python version to support in distutils several times, but I don't remember what was last decided. I thought it wasn't 1.5.2, though, and distutils/__init__.py still says 1.5.2.
Does anyone remember what was decided last time? I'm not at all sure what it was anymore, but I'd like to update the comment in that file to reflect current expectations.
I'd suggest to be conservative and go with 2.1 now.
The reason is simple: the distutils code base should be usable to build packages for as wide a Python versions range as possible.
Going for more recent Python versions would make it very cumbersome to support older versions to the point where such support would simply have to be dropped.
On Monday 02 August 2004 03:59 pm, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
I'd suggest to be conservative and go with 2.1 now.
I was hoping to use a property ;-), but went with an accessor method instead. That keeps things highly compatible at any rate (distutils is still using string module functions of all things!).
-Fred
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
Ok, we've beaten the horse of what Python version to support in distutils several times, but I don't remember what was last decided. I thought it wasn't 1.5.2, though, and distutils/__init__.py still says 1.5.2.
Does anyone remember what was decided last time? I'm not at all sure what it was anymore, but I'd like to update the comment in that file to reflect current expectations.
I'd suggest to be conservative and go with 2.1 now.
That was the plan - after 2.3 was released, distutils would be updated to require 2.1. This doesn't seem a big problem (to me).
Anthony
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