[Distutils] Fwd: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

[K. Richard Pixley]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:44 PM, K. Richard Pixley <rich at noir.com> wrote:
>   
>> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>     
>>> The rest of the work will happen in distutils2 and we will try to
>>> release a version asap for Python 2.x and 3.x (2.4 to 3.2), and the
>>> goal
>>> is to put it back in the stdlib in Python 3.3
>>>       
>> Er... 2.4?  Really?
>>     
> You need 2.3 ?  (please say no !... ;) 
I don't need 2.3.  I don't need 2.4 either.  I was actually wondering if 
the "2.4" was a typo.

It's not clear to me that there's much need for new packaging tools in 
older versions.

--rich