[Distutils] Will Distutils-1.0 be available outside of Python 1.6?

[Lyle Johnson]

I saw the announcement a few days back about the Distutils CVS tree being
merged back into the Python 1.6 CVS tree. I was wondering if the plans for
"Distutils-1.0" include:

 (1) it being available as a separate package, and,
 (2) compatibility with Python 1.5.2.

I'm still testing against the Distutils-0.1.3 drop, which of course meets
both of the above requirements. But I wasn't sure how to proceed with
regards to looking at the more recent snapshot(s) and/or the CVS version of
Distutils. I am anticipating that *some* of my end-users will not
immediately upgrade to Python 1.6 when it is released, and I don't want to
make that a requirement since the extension code itself (i.e. my stuff)
doesn't require Python 1.6.