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

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Tres Seaver<tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
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>> When Python 2.7/3.2 are out, I am planning to release a standalone
>> version of Distutils that will work starting at 2.5.
>> Which means that the 0.7 series of Distribute will be able to work with it.
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> I still haven't heard a clear story about how you think people will be
> able to install that standalone version without manually hacking up
> their /usr/lib/python2.x/ directories.

With a special .pth file that superseds the stdlib distutils path in sys.path
you can try it out by installing the nighlty build

http://nightly.ziade.org/