March 24, 2001
10:14 p.m.
The requirement of a version argument to the distutils command breaks Pyfort and many of my existing packages. These packages are not intended for use with the distribution commands and a package version number would be meaningless. I will make a new Pyfort that supplies a version number to the call it makes to setup. However, I think this change to distutils is a poor idea. If the version number would be required for the distribution commands, let *them* complain, perhaps by setting a default value of time.asctime(time.gmtime()) or something that the distribution commands could object to. I apologize if I missed an earlier discussion of this change that seems to be in 2.1b2 but not 2.1b1, as I am new to this list. Paul