2009/7/17 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Lennart Regebro<rege...@gmail.com> wrote: >> More specifically, Python 2.3 and/or 2.4? >> >> The current trunk (or whatever mercurial calls it) doesn't work with >> 2.4, because of a try/except/finally clause. That's fixable, but I >> ain't gonna fix it if we don't want to support 2.4 any more. I would >> claim that we should support 2.4. >> > > I think we can release a 2.4-compatible bugfix version then focus on > making it evolve with Distutils trunk. > > It should be the 0.6 final version. > > Then we can focus on working on the 0.7 series that will work with > Distutils current trunk. > > When Python 2.7/3.2 are out, I am planning to release a standalone > version of Distutils that will work starting at 2.5. > Which means that the 0.7 series of Distribute will be able to work with it. > > From there we can maintain a 0.6.x maintenance branch that will work > with vanilla Python from 2.4 to 2.6 + 3.1 > and a 0.7.x branch that will work with Python 2.7/3.2 and 2.5/2.6/3.1 > if the users install the Distutils backport.
Sounds reasonable. > What else do we want to take out ? easy_install ? While is implemented > like a distutils command in > setuptools, it could be a standalone script like pip does. I think that's a good idea. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
