At 04:17 PM 10/5/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Now I am astonished that we are talking about reverting changes in Distutils that were done for bugfixes, for a third party package that does monkey patches on Distutils.
Subclassing is not monkeypatching, so if you consider the above to be a general policy, then the developers of at least Numpy and Twisted should consider themselves warned that bugfix releases may break their build processes.
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