[Distutils] backwards compatibility of distutils?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:47:19AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>>Last time we discussed this the conclusion was that 1.5.2
>>compatibility is needed for 2.3 and we can then move
>>on to 2.0 compatibility for 2.4.
> 
> Why 2.0- and not 2.2-compatible?  2.2 is the version the PBF is
> concentrating on; are 2.0/2.1 of much interest to customers?

I'm not talking about customers or the PBF.

If you're starting to go for Python 2.2 in distutils, then
it'll become very hard for code publishers to provide Python
2.0/2.1 versions of their code and, yes, these version are
still in use out there.

Besides, I don't think that distutils really needs any of the
features in versions later than Python 2.0. The only reason
I see for moving to later version would be the integration
or use of Python std lib modules from later Python versions.

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