[Python-Dev] Packaging in Python 2 anyone ?

[Fred Drake]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's actually for the same reason that unittest changes are backported
> under the unittest2 name - the distutils2 name can be used in the
> future to get Python 3.4 packaging features in Python 3.3, but that
> would be difficult if the backport shadowed the standard library name.

Ah, yes... the old "too bad we stuck it in the standard library" problem.

For some things, an easy lament, but for foundational packaging-related
things, it's hard to get around.


  -Fred

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