[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 2.7 alpha 2 (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 23:03:41 CET 2010

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 22:56, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Maybe not, but the Distribute feature is there because IMO the distutils feature by itself isn't particularily useful. You need to write your own distutils extensions, in practice, and they are not trivial. I wouldn't say that. My Django port works with bare distutils (as does Django itself), and it works fine. That distribute had to redo it is only because setuptools replaces the buildpy command, as does the 2to3 support in distutils. So only if you have a different buildpy already, you can't use what is in distutils.

Yeah, you are right, I misremembered. The actual additional feature is the support for the test command. Testing under Python 2 and 3 without it is annoying.

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