[Distutils] Distribute and Python 3.2

[Lennart Regebro]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 07:04, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm working on Python 3 versions of pip and virtualenv, with the idea of keeping
>> a common codebase for Python 2.x and 3.x so as to make maintenance easier. To
>> date, I've made good progress: My port of pip (working with my port of
>> virtualenv) passes 100 tests (2 are skipped) on Python 3.2 and 3.3a0.
>
> Yay!
>
>> However,
>> one roadblock is that distribute 0.6.14 doesn't work with Python 3.2 and later,
>> because of the "abiflags" configuration parameter which is new in 3.2. Toshio
>> Kuratomi has a fix for this checked in, and my tests have used a tarball of the
>> distribute 0.6-maintenance tip with a name of distribute-0.6.15dev.tar.gz.
>>
>> It would be good if an official 0.6.15 release of distribute were made,
>> incorporating that fix, now that 3.2 is out.
>
> +1
>
> I'm going to be working on a buildout port this week and will need a
> Python 3.2-compatible port too!

Also my previous effort for buildout exposed a bug, which I fixed, so
we need a new release anyway. :-) So a new distribute release would be
very appreciated.