[Python-Dev] the distutils2 repo and 3to2

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon May 23 14:14:50 CEST 2011


2011/5/23 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
> 2011/5/23 Łukasz Langa <lukasz at langa.pl>:
> ...
>>
>> I've heard you're targetting 2.4 compatibility so be prepared that this is not going to be easy.
>
> yeah well, we might raise the bar to 2.5 and use some __future__
> statements. I am not sure that keeping 2.4 support is that useful
> anymore.

Anyone still stuck with 2.4 at this point in time is probably going to
struggle to switch their packaging support library from distutils to
distutils2 anyway.

Cheers,
Nick.

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