Anthony Baxter schrieb: >> In any case, I bumped the version number to 2.5, according to the >> policy discussed in >> > > Could this not simply use the Python version number directly, instead?
See the prior discussion at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-January/004366.html Some people still believe (at least, believed in January 2005), that distutils is developed independently of Python, and thus deserves its own version number. Of course, Andrew Kuchling officially declared in r1982 of pep 291 that there won't be any further stand-alone distutils releases, and therefore, backwards compatibility with 2.1 is not necessary anymore. So I changed distutils.__version__ again, to be derived from sys.version_info. I left the numerous comments still in distutils that compatibility with 2.1 is desired. We should remove these after 2.5 is released (or perhaps even before that). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
