M.-A. Lemburg schrieb: > I find it important to maintain distutils compatibility with > a few Python versions back. Even if I can't volunteer to > maintain distutils, like Martin suggested, due to lack of time, > I don't really see the requirement to use the latest and greatest > Python features in distutils, so preserving compatibility > with the commonly used Python versions wouldn't hurt.
Actually, it would. bdist_msi uses extension modules which are only available in 2.5. Keeping support for the compiler-recognizing code in msvccompiler also hurts. It's either an official feature, with somebody maintaining it, or people should expect to break it anytime. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
