[Distutils] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib/distutils sysconfig.py,1.52,1.53

[Thomas Heller]

Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> It doesn't appear that there has been any interest in standalone
> distutils releases since Python 2.2 was released.
> 
> I just checked and saw that the last release of distutils separate
> from Python was 1.0.2.  This release was done around April 2001.  And,
> suggesting that April is not the cruelest month after all, Python
> 1.5.2 was released in April 1999.  I'm happy to let the winter snow
> cover over 1.5.2 support and forget it come spring of 2003 and a
> Python 2.3 final release.
> 

I have (totally unofficially) distributed CVS versions of distutils to
several people, so that they can try out the recent bdist_wininst
improvements. 

I was thinking that maybe we (who is we?) should release a new
distutils version when this is finished, but I'm not sure if there are
still Python 1.5.2 users out there.

With the current state, it would be easy to do this last release even
compatible for them, and after that we could move on with new cool
coding styles, and using new features.

Thomas