[Distutils] Python version supported?

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Tue Aug 3 09:19:59 CEST 2004


M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> 
>> Ok, we've beaten the horse of what Python version to support in 
>> distutils several times, but I don't remember what was last decided.  
>> I thought it wasn't 1.5.2, though, and distutils/__init__.py still 
>> says 1.5.2.
>>
>> Does anyone remember what was decided last time?  I'm not at all sure 
>> what it was anymore, but I'd like to update the comment in that file 
>> to reflect current expectations.
> 
> 
> I'd suggest to be conservative and go with 2.1 now.

That was the plan - after 2.3 was released, distutils
would be updated to require 2.1. This doesn't seem a
big problem (to me).

Anthony
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