[Distutils] distutils version numbering

[Thomas Heller]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> writes:

> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> hi there,
>> I'm writing a custom 'build_scripts' command
>> that works around a bug in earlier versions
>> of distutils, i.e. it makes scripts executable
>> on posix platforms after they got copied to
>> the build_dir.
>> I'm looking for a discriminator that allows
>> me to decide whether or not to run the code,
>> depending on whether the distutils version
>> requires it.
>> It seems the version coming with python 2.2
>> requires it, while python 2.3 and up don't.
>> However, distutils.__version__ for python 2.2
>> as well as python 2.3 are the same ('1.0.3') !
>> Am I just looking in the wrong place ?
>
> No, there was no distutils release after 1.0.3.
> Starting with Python 2.4, distutils seem to follow
> the Python version number (even though I'm not really
> sure who made that decision and what the motivation
> was).

That was me, and it seemed a sensible thing to do.  And not changing the
distutils version number in Python 2.3 was a mistake, imo.

Thomas