[Python-ideas] Moving development out of the standard library

[Ian Bicking]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> [..]
> >> > 1. How will distutils2 updates be made available between Python
> >> > releases?
> >> > 2. How will distutils2 features be made available in older Python
> >> > releases?
> >>
> >> Why are you expecting any of these to happen? I don't know what Tarek
> >> intends to do in that respect, but he certainly doesn't have any moral
> >> obligation to do external releases.
> >
> > distutils2 won't be in 2.7 at least, and any packaging system not
> available
> > for Python 2 would be irrelevant.
>
> Distutils2 will be provided for Python 2.4 to 3.x with frequent releases.
>
> Then, once it's added in 3.2 (maybe 3.3 if not ready by then), its
> release cycle will be driven by
> Python's one, with backports released at the same pace for Python
> versions that didn't have it in
> the stdlib.
>

So let's say distutils2 gets version parity with Python, so distutils2 3.3
is released with Python 3.3.  Then distutils2 3.4 is released with Python
3.4, and is backported to all previous versions of Python... except for
Python 3.3, which will always have distutils2 3.3?


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