[Distutils] Backwards compatability: opinions?

[Fred L. Drake]

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.	     <fdrake@acm.org>
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