[Distutils] Changes in RPM affecting Distutils

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

amk at amk.ca writes:
 > We can't do that without breaking the policy that maintenance branches have
 > no new features (e.g. 2.3's register command, various changed options on
 > bdist_rpm, doubtless).  If Distutils can add new features, why not other
 > modules?  

That falls into the "I agree in principal, but..." category for me.  I
generally think of distutils as a feature, not parts of it.  If pieces
of it are features, then "working with current RPM versions" is a
feature to, so the compatibility can't be backported in any case.

The "email" package, on the other hand, gets updated as a chunk.

 > It would be possible to go through the CVS logs and tease apart which
 > changes are just bugfixes, but someone would need to volunteer to do that,
 > and it would be a lot of tedious work that only benefited old Python
 > versions.

I agree that this is a lot of work, and it's not clear that it's the
right thing.


  -Fred

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