[Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

[Lennart Regebro]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 13:01, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think we want to break any current feature in 2.7, we will
> probably just display
> deprecation warnings and keep them, then wait until the next python version.
>
> And if someone want to use your package, that uses a new feature
> that is not present in 2.5/2.6, he will need to install the backport.
>
> Some good practice will be needed for package developers
> for this (maybe a kind error message)

Well, that's survivable, if not ideal.
I would push hard for a rename if I could just come up with a good
name. But I can't. :-)

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