Hi Andrew, On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:27:09PM +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote: > In both the current Debian and Ubuntu releases, the "python2.4" binary package > includes distutils.
Ah, good. This must be a relatively recent change. I'm not a Debian user, but merely a user that happens to have to use a Debian machine occasionally. None of these machines had distutils installed by default so far, but it looks like things are going to improve in the future then. Now I only have to hope that 2.4.4 makes its way out of 'unstable' soon. As far as I can tell sysadmins installing the current 'testing' would still be getting a Python 2.4.3, not modern enough to cope with the arithmetic overflow issues introduced by the cutting-edge GCC of 'testing'. But it looks like any year now I'll be able to assume that Linux machines all provide a Python that works as nicely as a freshly compiled one. A bientot, Armin _______________________________________________ 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