[Python-Dev] PEP 301: Package Index and Metadata for Distutils

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 8:59 pm, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> One nit: in order to make the setup.py script work for Python 1.5.2
> and up, you should provide a way which let's the distutils
> versions of those platforms ignore the classification keyword
> argument for setup().

The documentation of the classifiers keyword will include a specific warning 
about backwards compatibility. If there no objections, I'll include a code 
fragment that setup.py authors may use so their setup.py will run under 
python <2.2.3.


    Richard