[Python-Dev] To 3.0.2 or not to 3.0.2?

[Samuele Pedroni]

Victor Stinner wrote:
> Le Tuesday 17 February 2009 08:52:20 Lennart Regebro, vous avez écrit :
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>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 00:50, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
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>>> Can you explain the difficulty with porting setuptools in more detail?
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>> Oh, it just exposes a bug in distutils. It probably means I'll have to
>> make a test for python version, and if it is 3.0.1, monkey-patch
>> distutils. I haven't really looked into if there is any other
>> possibilities yet, I'm concentrating to make it run for 3.1 trunk
>> first.
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Didn't a test fail because of this? seems the underlying issue is that 
this part of the stdlib didn't have enough test coverage. It seems that 
having very good/improving test coverage like is recommended  for 
3rd-party project wanting to switch would be a good goal for 3.0 
evolution too. We know from PyPy experience that while always improving 
the test suite coverage is quite spotty at times.