[Distutils] 1.5.2 compatibility

A.M. Kuchling amk@amk.ca
Tue Nov 5 22:24:01 2002


On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:17:19PM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
>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.

We could roll a Distutils 1.0.3 release from the code that's in Python
2.2.2 (assuming no 2.x-isms crept in).  Maybe that will be enough for
the 1.5.2 holdouts?  If not, then a further Distutils 1.0.4 can come
from the Distutils code in 2.3, once the use of string methods is
backed out.

--amk