[Python-Dev] Packaging in Python 2 anyone ?

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Thu Aug 18 04:15:53 CEST 2011


On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> I'll throw this out there.. why is it going to have a different name on
> python2 than on python3?

So it can be a drop-in replacement for the existing distutils2, I'd expect.

"packaging" is new with Python3, and is the Guido-approved name.


  -Fred

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