[Distutils] backwards compatibility of distutils?

[Anthony Baxter]

When is it ok to lose the backward-compatibility of distutils? 
Going through the code, there's at least two entire modules (log 
and fancy_getopt) that should be removed in favour of the 
new logging and optparse modules. Obviously this isn't possible 
if 1.5.2 compatibility is to be kept.

Or should they be replaced with copies of the logging and optparse
modules in the distutils CVS tree?

Anthony
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