[Python-Dev] Mark old distutils as deprecated

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2009-02-08 11:15, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> Hello
> 
> To avoid confusion, as suggested by Akira who works on cleaning the
> Distutils pages on the python.org website,
> I would like to move http://svn.python.org/view/distutils/trunk into a
> branch and add a README.txt in an empty trunk
> to explain the current status of the package.
> 
> Any objection ?

No.

It be worthwhile keeping just the setup code and adjust that
to take the distutils package from the python/ dir in order to
build separate releases of the code for upload to PyPI (ones
that basically provide the code as released in Python 2.x as
separate download for 2.(x-1) and 2.(x-2)).

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