[issue5052] Mark distutils to stay compatible with 2.3

2009-02-27 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: And we're back in PEP 291 ! see r70019, r70017 and r70021 -- status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5052

[issue5052] Mark distutils to stay compatible with 2.3

2009-02-26 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: ok the current trunk won't run even under 2.5... I will make two small changes: - use md5 module of haslib is not found - make the smallest possible change for site.USER_BASE and site.USER_SITE usage -- nosy: +christian.heimes

[issue5052] Mark distutils to stay compatible with 2.3

2009-02-26 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Changes by Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13197/2.3.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5052 ___

[issue5052] Mark distutils to stay compatible with 2.3

2009-02-02 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg m...@egenix.com added the comment: Some more explanation for why keeping distutils Python 2.3 compatible is desirable: distutils was removed from the PEP without any public discussion outside a sprint at PyCon and the reasons given for it did not take into account that people

[issue5052] Mark distutils to stay compatible with 2.3

2009-01-25 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: Ok, I will rewrite the top README file to explain this (and PEP 291 as well) and keep the Python 2.3 compatibility in the whole package. -- status: closed - open title: This module should be kept compatible with Python 2.1. in

[issue5052] Mark distutils to stay compatible with 2.3

2009-01-25 Thread Akira Kitada
Akira Kitada akit...@gmail.com added the comment: Is there any PEP describing we have to keep compatibility with 2.3 release? I'm not against the idea but just curious. ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5052