On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > The only question is, given that 2.6.x is supposed to be a bug-fix branch, do > we > want to fix that incompatibility with a widely deployed existing piece of > software? Whether or not the incompatibility is legitimate (i.e., whether > setuptools is badly written and relies on implementation details) is beyond > the > point, IMO.
Right. As discussed with Barry, I will work on an internal special case in Distutils in the 2.6 maint. branch so it fixes the incompatibility with the Setuptools 0.6c9 release. Tarek. _______________________________________________ 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
