Thomas Heller wrote:
distutils still is very much an independent piece of software
which only happens to be shipped together with core Python.
I would rather like to see it stay that way to make life
easier for the developers of Python add-ons, so my vote is
for the standard "change API, bump version number" scheme.
Fine with me.
I have fixed a bug in 2.4's bdist_wininst already (*), although that's
not an api change. What should the next version numbers be then, in the
release24-maint branch and HEAD?
Patches only: 2.4.1
API changes and new features: 2.5.0
If we introduce a new feature for every Python release, we'll
remain in sync ;-)
Thomas
(*) One of my own, personal use cases for the distutils version number
is that I want to be able to identify the distutils version a binary
windows installer was built with - it is displayed on the first screen
if you run it.
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