[Python-checkins] r51321 - python/trunk/Misc/NEWS

Wed Aug 16 18:11:02 CEST 2006

Author: marc-andre.lemburg
Date: Wed Aug 16 18:11:01 2006
New Revision: 51321

Modified:
   python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
Log:
Add NEWS item mentioning the reverted distutils version number patch.


Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
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--- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	Wed Aug 16 18:11:01 2006
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0. The change to
+  keep it programmatically in sync with the Python version running
+  the code (introduced in 2.5b3) has been reverted. It will continue
+  to be maintained manually as static string literal.
+
 - If a the Python part of a ctypes callback function returns None,
   and this cannot be converted to the required C type, an exception is
   printed with PyErr_WriteUnraisable.  Before this change, the C
