[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Sat Dec 4 00:11:57 CET 2010


On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Am 03.12.2010 23:48, schrieb Éric Araujo:
>>> But I'm not interested at all in having it in distutils2. I want the
>>> Python build itself to use it, and alas, I can't because of the freeze.
>> You can’t in 3.2, true.  Neither can you in 3.1, or any previous
>> version.  If you implement it in distutils2, you have very good chances
>> to get it for 3.3.  Isn’t that a win?
> 
> It is, unfortunately, a very weak promise. Until distutils2 is
> integrated in Python, I probably won't spend any time on it.

It seems like it'd be a good idea to start integrating distutils2 into python trunk immediately after the 3.2 branch is cut, then.

James



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