[Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Lennart Regebro<regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/23 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
>> - Let's then backport the 0.8 version into a 0.7 version, compatbile
>> with Python 2.x and with the required bootstraping
>>  so it works in 2.x environments
>
> There is no reason to have different version numbers for that. In
> fact, I think that would only be confusing. The Python 3 version
> should work for Python 2 as well.

I think you don't see my point : making a pure Python 3 version, without
any backward compatibility issues / bootstraping , fight against setuptools
distribution. Then backporting it in 0.7

But 0.8 would not be 2.x compatible.


>
> Otherwise +1 for everything.
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