[Distutils] Version numbers for module distributions

Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:00:55 -0800


Fred L. Drake wrote:
> 
> Greg Stein writes:
>  > People will use whatever practices they want. Many people do not have
>  > software engineering degrees (heck, many don't even have degrees!). If
>  > you organize distutils such that you require a change on their part,
>  > they'll simply ignore distutils. Back to .tar.gz files.
> 
>   I don't think .tar.gz went anywhere.  Are we supposed to be doing a
> new archive format as well?  I don't see any point.

nah, I was trying to imply a simple archive of files, rather than a cool
package.

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/