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

[Robin Becker]

In article <2mbs52pn2d.fsf@starship.python.net>, Michael Hudson
<mwh@python.net> writes
>"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
>
>> Python 1.5.2 is still in active use out there. It's not worth
>> breaking code just for cosmetic reasons.
>
>But are these 1.5.2 users going to see any new distutils code?
>I.e. do people who still run 1.5.2 occasionally upgrade their
>distutils installation?  I'd be surprised, but could always be wrong.
>
>It would be a good idea to leave the last 1.5.2 compatible released
>distutils tarball somewhere prominent in any case.
>
>Cheers,
>M.
>
I'm one of the unlucky ones with 1.5.2/2.0/2.1 and 2.3. In practice each
has the very latest implementation and (touch wood) so far I've had no
real problems.

The problem is that when feature X is advertised ie a better way to do
libraries/dlls or whatever that usually goes into the setup.py. I don't
maintain a separate client code base so the 1.5.2 should compile/build
with the same setup.py as the bleeding edge.

I suspect that I won't need to maintain 1.5.2 forever, but the spread is
quite wide without adding build dependencies in. 
-- 
Robin Becker