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

[Leonardo Santagada]

On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

> 2009/7/24 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
>> I can postpone the 0.6 release for a week or so, until this is  
>> ready, so we can
>> have 0.6 for Python 3.
>
> I think we should make a 2.x only release first. The changes to
> support Python 3 are small but numerous and since the test-coverage
> isn't that great I'm worried it will insert subtle bugs. I would be
> less worried if we can have a longer test-period after these changes.
>
> On the other hand, if we do merge these changes before the 0.6 release
> they will quickly get tested. ;)


People using python 3x don't have support for setuptools so they would  
understand if you release early a beta version. And I think you  
should, not having setutools is a problem for every package being  
converted to python 3.1

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Leonardo Santagada
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