A.M. Kuchling wrote:
* There's no standalone distutils package on PyPI, nor can I find
such a package with a general web search. Am I missing it?
* I do not see users advising other users to use a later version of
Distutils to fix their problems.
Is anyone actually benefiting from the effort of maintaining backward
compatibility?
I remember this discussion coming up before the 2.5 release when the
distutils version number was changed to depend on the python instance
instead of a static string. MAL was made very upset that the SVN trunk
version of distutils could no longer be pulled out seperately. But at
that time, you had removed it from PEP 291, officially renouncing this
practice. I believe the conclusion was that MAL's request to maintain
psuedo-backward-compatibility would be upheld despite not having
official status.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-August/068250.html
-Scott
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