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

Benji York benji at zope.com
Fri Jul 17 13:38:32 CEST 2009


On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Tarek Ziadé<ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only problem with 2.4 I can see is that the tarfile module is badly broken.
> So I propose shipping a backport of the 2.5 tarfile module with
> Distribute 0.6 final.
> (that's what I do with customer projects)

Big +1 (as long as the backported tarfile module doesn't shadow the
built-in tarfile, that's just asking for trouble).
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Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation


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