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

[Lennart Regebro]

2009/7/24 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Ronald Oussoren<ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> I agree with Lennart that a 2.x only release would be better, especially because it would be possible to do a 0.7 alpha/beta release short after the stable 0.6 release.
>
> Notice that 0.7 will rename the setuptools package, the
> pkg_resources.py module, and the easy_install script
>
> Meaning that if we don't add py3 support in the 0.6.x series, people
> will *have* to rename their imports if they want to
> use it under Python 3.

Yeah, but is that a problem, as the renamed version will exist for
Python 2 as well, I assume?


In any case, I have no strong opinion on whether 3.x support comes in
0.6 or 0.7.

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