On 8/15/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The distutils version number should be changed back to a static > string literal. > > It's currently setup to get its version number > from the Python version running it which pretty much defeats > the whole purpose of having a version number and makes using the > SVN distutils package with other Python versions problematic.
I am sympathetic to this case. Is there any advantage to the *users* of distutils of the dynamic version number? If it's only done for the benefit of the release managers (with whose plight I also sympathesize) I think it must be rolled back, at least as long as distutils is officially listed as a package that needs to support older versions of Python, which pretty much implies that it's okay to extract it from the 2.5 release and distribute it separately for use with older Python versions. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
