[Python-Dev] no remaining issues blocking 2.5 release

["Martin v. Löwis"]

M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:
> I find it important to maintain distutils compatibility with
> a few Python versions back. Even if I can't volunteer to
> maintain distutils, like Martin suggested, due to lack of time,
> I don't really see the requirement to use the latest and greatest
> Python features in distutils, so preserving compatibility
> with the commonly used Python versions wouldn't hurt.

Actually, it would. bdist_msi uses extension modules which
are only available in 2.5. Keeping support for the
compiler-recognizing code in msvccompiler also hurts.

It's either an official feature, with somebody maintaining it,
or people should expect to break it anytime.

Regards,
Martin