[Python-Dev] Python 1.6 & Distutils 0.9.1: success

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Greg Ward writes:
 > I went ahead and tried out the current cnri-16-start branch on Solaris
 > 2.6.  (I figured you guys are all using Linux by now, so you might want
 > to hear back how it works on Solaris.)

  Great!  I've just updated 1.6 to include the Distutils-0_9_1 tagged
version of the distutils package and the documentation.  I'm
rebuilding our release candidates now.

 > In short: no problem!  It built, tested, and installed just fine.

  Great!  Thanks!

 > Oops, just noticed that my configure.in fix from late May didn't make
 > the cut:
...
 > Oh well.  This means that Robin Dunn's bsddb extension won't work with
 > Python 1.6 under Solaris.

  That's unfortunate.


  -Fred

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