Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: Fixed in the py3k branch in r86223, r86224 and r86226. Thanks for the report and starting patch.
Eric: This compatibility policy was instated because a newer version of distutils may be used/is often used to install distributions for older Pythons. In the 2.x line, this was enforced. I checked the current py3k code with the oldest version I have, 2.4, and it’s not entirely compatible. Python 3.x is developed as a clean break from 2.x (no versionchanged directives in docs, etc.), so what’s the status of the distutils compatibility policy? I think that the reasons are still valid, so keeping 2.x source compat in py3k is a nice thing to do for our users. Even if we’re working on distutils2 (which will have releases for 2.4-3.2), distutils is still widely used and we expect a long transition period. I can bring this up on python-dev if you think it’s needed. ---------- nosy: +loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10252> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
