[Python-Dev] Package install failures in 2.6.3

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> The only question is, given that 2.6.x is supposed to be a bug-fix branch, do we
> want to fix that incompatibility with a widely deployed existing piece of
> software? Whether or not the incompatibility is legitimate (i.e., whether
> setuptools is badly written and relies on implementation details) is beyond the
> point, IMO.

Right. As discussed with Barry, I will work on an internal special
case in Distutils in the 2.6 maint.
branch so it fixes the incompatibility with the Setuptools 0.6c9 release.

Tarek.