On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > It's worth remembering Éric's point - distutils is frozen and changes > are in theory not allowed. This part of the proposal is not possible > without an exception to that ruling. Personally, I don't see how > making this change could be a problem, but I'm definitely not an > expert. > > If distutils doesn't change, bdist_wininst installers built using > distutils rather than packaging will do the wrong thing with regard to > this change. End users won't be able to tell how an installer has been > built. > >
This is a good point. Who can make this call - Guido, or someone else?
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