[Distutils] [Distribute] What versions should we support?

[Lennart Regebro]

2009/7/17 Hanno Schlichting <hanno at hannosch.eu>:
> Yes. The current setuptools 0.6c9 release claims to be compatible with
> Python 2.3 to 2.6. I'd like to maintain that same promise for the 0.6
> release series. I don't see Python 3.x support as mandatory for these
> maintenance releases. It's a new feature which can go into a new major
> release. It's likely to be somewhat disruptive to do while retaining
> support for all older releases.

Also, supporting both 2.3 and 3.1 is a LOT of work, even when using
2to3. I'd be happy to be able to drop both 2.3 and 2.4 support in the
Python 3 branch.

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