[Distutils] Availability of setuptools installer for python2.6?

[Paul Moore]

2008/10/6 Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 12:05 PM 10/6/2008 -0700, Chris Mahan wrote:
>>
>> Phillip,
>>
>> At
>> <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
>> there is no MS windows installer for python 2.6.
>>
>> Do you have an idea of when that might be available?
>
> No, it'll likely be a while before I'm doing anything with 2.6.  Ian Bicking
> now has privs for the setuptools PyPI entry, so perhaps he could upload one.
>  (There actually isn't anything Windows-specific about it; all the .exe
> installers that I upload are actually built on a Linux machine.)

This is a really frustrating aspect of setuptools, that pure-Python
packages produce version-specific installers. I'm sure I've seen an
explanation of why this is necessary somewhere before, but I can't
recall precisely where (and I don't really have time to wade through
all the setuptools documentation to see if it's in there - it wasn't
obvious from reading the contents). Can anyone give me a quick pointer
to the explanation?

Thanks,
Paul