[Python-Dev] To 3.0.2 or not to 3.0.2? (original) (raw)

Samuele Pedroni pedronis at openend.se
Tue Feb 17 12:25:42 CET 2009

Victor Stinner wrote:

Le Tuesday 17 February 2009 08:52:20 Lennart Regebro, vous avez écrit :

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 00:50, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Can you explain the difficulty with porting setuptools in more detail? Oh, it just exposes a bug in distutils. It probably means I'll have to make a test for python version, and if it is 3.0.1, monkey-patch distutils. I haven't really looked into if there is any other possibilities yet, I'm concentrating to make it run for 3.1 trunk first. Didn't a test fail because of this? seems the underlying issue is that this part of the stdlib didn't have enough test coverage. It seems that having very good/improving test coverage like is recommended for 3rd-party project wanting to switch would be a good goal for 3.0 evolution too. We know from PyPy experience that while always improving the test suite coverage is quite spotty at times.

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