conditional install/distribution

[i3dmaster]

On Sep 11, 11:07 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> i3dmasterschrieb:
>
> > Is there a feature in distutils or easy_install to specify what
> > version of python that the target package can be installed? For
> > example, if a package has a module that only needed if the python
> > version < 2.6, is there a way to specifiy that in setup.py or
> > easy_install cfg file so that when installing to python >= 2.6, this
> > module wouldn't be installed??
>
> you can simply import sys and check sys.version in the setup-script, and
> abort with an error-message if the expectations aren't matched.
>
> Diez
I know I can precheck the version, but the real issue is how I can
prevent from installing a specific module? Actually, the rest of the
package should still be installed but just not a particular module
because the feature is built in after 2.6.