On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:34, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I'm testing a branch of Python which provides out-of-the-box ability to create > virtual enviroments à la virtualenv, and as part of that testing I have to > install Distribute in newly created environments a lot. Though normally > running > 2to3 as part of the Distribute installation is not a big deal, for this > testing > I'm doing, it does slow things down a little. > > While waiting for some tests to finish, I thought I might as well look into > whether Distribute could be made to run on 2.x and 3.x from a single code > base, > thereby avoiding the 2to3 step. > > I've made an attempt, and things seem to have gone reasonably smoothly: the > conversion is done and all unit tests pass on 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 (my branch).
We still need to support Python 2.4, right? That's a trickier issue. But including six.py might help. //Lennart _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
