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

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:17 PM, K. Richard Pixley <rich at noir.com> wrote:
> [..]
>>
>> 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.
>
> Some people are building new code that needs to work with some
> platforms that are requiring 2.5 and sometimes 2.4 (like some old REHL
> that are still in use in big companies). I need 2.5 at least myself.

And once you have 2.5 support, 2.4 is not really different. The big
gap is 2.6 because of syntax changes
like "with".

>
> Regards
> Tarek
>



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