[Python-Dev] Mark old distutils as deprecated

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/2/9 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:
> 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)).

Indeed, and for any Python version in fact, to get early feedbacks
between two Python releases.

I will make releases as you mentioned, and also a development release
using the svn revision,
so people can try out the current trunk.

>>> '%sdev-r69676' % sys.version.split()[0]
'2.7a0dev-r69676'

Regards
Tarek

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