[Distutils] Simultaneous multi-version support (was: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP : Synthesis of previous threads, and irc talks + proposals)

[Ben Finney]

Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> writes:

> I'll also note that the require in setuptools-generated scripts causes
> pretty frequent problems for people, all to support this multi-version
> feature that no one really uses.

I agree heartily that it seems to cause more trouble than it's worth —
for my assessment of its worth, anyway. Is it true that “no-one” (to
some epsilon value) actually uses this feature?

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Ben Finney