[Python-Dev] Mark old distutils as deprecated

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2009-02-16 17:54, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> 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'

Great !

Thanks,
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