Using distutils 2.4 for python 2.3

George Sakkis gsakkis at rutgers.edu
Fri Sep 23 08:34:13 EDT 2005


"Noam Raphael" <noamraph at remove.the.dot.gm.ail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to distribute a package. It's compatible with Python 2.3.
> Is there a way to use distutils 2.4 feature package_data, while
> maintaining the distribution compatible with python 2.3 ?
>
> Thanks,
> Noam Raphael

You could distribute the whole 2.4 distutils package in yours so that setup.py finds it before the
default one. If distutils 2.4 is compatible with 2.3, that should work.

George





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