[Distutils] Distribute without 2to3

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:34, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm testing a branch of Python which provides out-of-the-box ability to create
> virtual enviroments à la virtualenv, and as part of that testing I have to
> install Distribute in newly created environments a lot. Though normally running
> 2to3 as part of the Distribute installation is not a big deal, for this testing
> I'm doing, it does slow things down a little.
>
> While waiting for some tests to finish, I thought I might as well look into
> whether Distribute could be made to run on 2.x and 3.x from a single code base,
> thereby avoiding the 2to3 step.
>
> I've made an attempt, and things seem to have gone reasonably smoothly: the
> conversion is done and all unit tests pass on 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 (my branch).

We still need to support Python 2.4, right? That's a trickier issue.
But including six.py might help.

//Lennart