[Python-Dev] Package install failures in 2.6.3

[P.J. Eby]

At 04:17 PM 10/5/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>Now I am astonished that we are talking about reverting changes in
>Distutils that were done for bugfixes, for a third party package that
>does monkey patches on Distutils.

Subclassing is not monkeypatching, so if you consider the above to be 
a general policy, then the developers of at least Numpy and Twisted 
should consider themselves warned that bugfix releases may break 
their build processes.