[Python-Dev] no remaining issues blocking 2.5 release (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Tue Aug 15 18:09:28 CEST 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

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. See, it isn't listed as such anymore, not since AMK removed it from PEP 291. That said, I'm not terribly opposed to it being changed back (*) - but I won't change it back (having it changed already twice in two days). I just wish I could then delegate all bug reports "distutils doesn't work with older Python releases" to MAL. As far as I'm concerned, this isn't a distutils feature anymore.

How many of those are there ?

We're running SVN distutils regularly for Python 2.4 and use the one that shipped with Python 2.3 (the last to support 1.5.2) for all versions between 1.5.2 and 2.3.

We haven't hit any bugs related to distutils not being compatible to those Python versions anymore. The few I found over the years, I corrected directly in the repository.

I just checked: SVN distutils (at least the parts that we use) still works with Python 2.2. It no longer works with Python 2.1 due to the use of "True" and probably a few other things.

Regards, Martin

(*) where "back" means 2.5.0, not 2.4.0.

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