[Python-Dev] Which version of distutils to ship with Python 2.5?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Collin Winter wrote:
> Is it intentional that Python 2.5 is (currently) shipping with
> distutils 2.4.0, while Python 2.4 (at least 2.4.1, 2.4.2 and 2.4.3)
> shipped with distutils 2.4.1? Judging from my own tests, distutils
> 2.4.1 fixed several bugs that some of my test suites depend on (the
> fixes, not the bugs ; ).

Are these bugs not fixed in the distutils that shipped with Python 2.5b2?

In any case, I bumped the version number to 2.5, according to the policy
discussed in

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-January/004368.html

Thanks for pointing this out.

Regards,
Martin