On Jul 28, 1:00 pm, "P.J. Eby" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please note that *future* fixes won't help the person who asked what > to do right now. >
As long as we're on the topic of *future* fixes that provide no help what so ever for the OP ... ... It would be nice if the python standard library was packaged up into a set of distributions in some sensible way. These distributions would still be pulled into main Python release so that they are installed the same as they always have, but the [python-install]/lib/ python/ directory would contain .egg-info files, so that it would be possible to tell that the 'multiprocessing' distro is supplied by the standard lib, and what version of the distro is included in a particular Python release. Then it would no longer be necessary to use hacks to require 'multiprocessing' for older versions of python, but not newer versions, even though newer versions of python have the distro included them, but it's now an invisible distro without a version number, undetectable to any package installation tools. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
