[Distutils] Setuptools for Python 2.5

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Sep 15 22:26:45 CEST 2006


At 09:14 PM 9/15/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
>On 9/12/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>>At 10:19 PM 9/12/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
>> >ez_setup won't install with Python 2.5c1 - presumably, because there
>> >isn't a Python 2.5 egg available from the Cheeseshop. I'd have
>> >expected it to build from sources in the absence of a suitable egg.
>>
>>Actually, that's not the reason.  Python 2.5 requires setuptools 0.7a1,
>>which is only available from SVN.
>
>BTW, do you intend to release an "official" 0.7a1 when Python 2.5 comes out?

That's probably a good idea, now that you mention it.  :)  I've gotten a 
little too used to thinking of 2.5 as this far-off thing.  :)



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