[Distutils] New code snapshot

[Corran Webster]

At 9:33 PM -0400 3/8/00, Greg Ward wrote:
> OK, let's see if I understand.
>
> > ":foo" == "foo" != "foo:"
>   rel        rel     abs
>
> > but
> >
> > ":foo:bar" != "foo:bar" == "foo:bar:"
>   rel           abs           abs
>
> Right?  And the oddball is "foo", which is special-cased to be
> relative.  I think I get it now...

Spot-on.

> > For the record, I posted to the MacPython list about this, and it looks
> > like people are happy with the new version of os.path.normpath for the mac,
> > so hopefully that'll be in the CVS tree in a day or two (I'll send it to
> > Jack Jansen to add it to the tree).
>
> Cool.  I wonder if this should be committed on the 1.6 branch as well,
> since it's "just a bug fix".

I think that's the plan.

I have no idea what the situation is for MacPython 1.6 vs. 2.0 at the
moment, particularly since Jack Jansen is at CWI.  I imagine that there
will be a 1.6 release, since a lot of stuff has been added in 1.6 alpha
(threading, particularly).

Regards,
Corran