Re: [Distutils] Fwd: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-03-01 Thread Fred Drake
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:17 PM, K. Richard Pixley wrote: > It's not clear to me that there's much need for new packaging tools in older > versions. I've certainly found it useful to use distribute under Python 2.4. There are still a lot of people using Python 2.4. I think the general rule for pa

Re: [Distutils] Fwd: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-03-01 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:17 PM, K. Richard Pixley wrote: > [..] >> >> I don't need 2.3.  I don't need 2.4 either.  I was actually wondering if the >> "2.4" was a typo. >> >> It's not clear to me that there's much need for new packaging tools in

Re: [Distutils] Fwd: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-03-01 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:17 PM, K. Richard Pixley wrote: [..] > > I don't need 2.3.  I don't need 2.4 either.  I was actually wondering if the > "2.4" was a typo. > > It's not clear to me that there's much need for new packaging tools in older > versions. Some people are building new code that ne

Re: [Distutils] Fwd: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-03-01 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:44 PM, K. Richard Pixley wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: The rest of the work will happen in distutils2 and we will try to release a version asap for Python 2.x and 3.x (2.4 to 3.2), and the goal is to put it back in the stdlib in Python 3.3

Re: [Distutils] Fwd: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-03-01 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:44 PM, K. Richard Pixley wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> The rest of the work will happen in distutils2 and we will try to >> release a version asap for Python 2.x and 3.x (2.4 to 3.2), and the >> goal >> is to put it back in the stdlib in Python 3.3 > > Er... 2.4?  Real

Re: [Distutils] Fwd: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-03-01 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Tarek Ziadé wrote: The rest of the work will happen in distutils2 and we will try to release a version asap for Python 2.x and 3.x (2.4 to 3.2), and the goal is to put it back in the stdlib in Python 3.3 Er... 2.4? Really? --rich ___ Distutils-SIG ma

[Distutils] Fwd: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-02-26 Thread Tarek Ziadé
FIY (I didn't cross-post to make it easier for following the threads) -- Forwarded message -- From: Tarek Ziadé Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:44 PM Subject: The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7 To: Python-Dev Hello, This is a follow-up of the Pycon summit + sprints on packagin