[Python-checkins] r50978 - in python/trunk: Lib/distutils/__init__.py Misc/NEWS

[Thomas Heller]

M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:
> Anthony Baxter wrote:
>> On Monday 31 July 2006 02:35, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>> M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:
>>>> I agree with Nick. The patch isn't all that helpful.
>>> So we are stuck. Anthony Baxter wants this automatically
>>> synchronized.
>> 
>> I want less places in the Python standard library that contain version 
>> numbers that have to be updated constantly. If you (or anyone else) 
>> wants to cut a standalone release of distutils, you should take care 
>> to update the version number in the standalone code appropriately.
> 
> Could we please revert the patch to have the distutils version
> number generated rather than being a fixed literal before b3
> and then have a proper discussion about this whole issue
> on either the distutils SIG list or python-dev ?

I would like to support MaL on this issue.

Thomas