[Distutils] Fwd: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 20:22:46 CET 2010


On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:17 PM, K. Richard Pixley <rich at noir.com> wrote:
[..]
>
> I don't need 2.3.  I don't need 2.4 either.  I was actually wondering if the
> "2.4" was a typo.
>
> It's not clear to me that there's much need for new packaging tools in older
> versions.

Some people are building new code that needs to work with some
platforms that are requiring 2.5 and sometimes 2.4 (like some old REHL
that are still in use in big companies). I need 2.5 at least myself.

Regards
Tarek


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