Martin v. Löwis wrote: > 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.
bdist_msi is only a small part of distutils. While it would be great to have that distribution format for 2.3 and 2.4 as well, I don't think it's vital. It's simply a feature that is only available when using Python 2.5. > Keeping support for the > compiler-recognizing code in msvccompiler also hurts. I guess that's something to tell Microsoft ;-) However, I don't see that as argument for dropping the distutils support for Python versions prior to 2.5. > It's either an official feature, with somebody maintaining it, > or people should expect to break it anytime. I'll let you know when things break - is that good enough ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 15 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ 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
