[Python-Dev] 3.x as the official release

Éric Araujo winston at netwok.org
Thu Sep 16 22:42:19 CEST 2010


> If you're talking about distutils2 on Python 3, then of course 
> anything goes: backward compatibility isn't an issue.  For 2.x, not 
> writing the files would indeed produce backward compatibility problems.

I was talking about distutils in 3.2 (or in the release where
wsgiref.egg-info goes away).  install_egg_info.py has already been
turned into install_distinfo.py in distutils2, following PEP 376.

Thank you for your reply, I withdraw my suggestion.

Regards



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