[Python-Dev] Distutils & configparser rename

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since it would be nice for the standard library to not emit any warnings
> with the -3 flag, perhaps distutils should at least be trying the new name
> first, and only falling back to the old name on an ImportError (assuming we
> do decide we want to be able to run the 2.6 distutils on older versions of
> Python).
>

Well, that is a good idea. And, that will silence the Windows
buildbots while other developers find out how to add lib-old/ to the
sys.path.

-- Alexandre