[Distutils] Timeframe of 2.0 again?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Moore, Paul wrote:
> From: Anthony Baxter [mailto:anthony at interlink.com.au]
> 
>>>>"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote
>>
>>FWIW, eGenix still ships 1.5.2 compatible packages and we use
>>the CVS version of distutils to built the binary packages.
> 
> I'm probably being dense here, but why don't you use the version
> of distutils that came with Python (or for Python versions before
> distutils was in the standard library, a fixed distutils version
> compatible with that Python version) to build the binary packages?
> 
> It may be more complex to keep the build environment set up, but
> surely that's a one-off cost to the distributor, rather than a
> significant reason for constraining the development of distutils?

Not so: in that case we'd have to keep in sync with at
least 5 different versions of distutils deployed out there.

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