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Author	lkcl
Recipients	BreamoreBoy, LRN, WhiteTiger, amaury.forgeotdarc, davidfraser, eric.araujo, giampaolo.rodola, lkcl, rpetrov, rschoon.old, tarek, zooko
Date	2010-11-13.13:04:47
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> I am not sure how we should do this, but here's my proposal > for distutils2 at least: > - make this new feature a standalone package that patches distutils > - release it for 2.x > - let's add your work in distutils2 as well, so it's back in the stdlib in 3.x that would work very well: people doing new setup.py files, converting from python2 etc., will, duh, need to do _some_ conversion: they'll expect breakage and to be using distutils2 anyway. thank you tarek.

> I am not sure how we should do this, but here's my proposal
> for distutils2 at least:

> - make this new feature a standalone package that patches distutils
> - release it for 2.x
> - let's add your work in distutils2 as well, so it's back in the stdlib in 3.x

 that would work very well: people doing new setup.py files, converting from python2 etc., will, duh, need to do _some_ conversion: they'll expect breakage and to be using distutils2 anyway.

thank you tarek.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-11-13 13:04:50	lkcl	set	recipients: + lkcl, zooko, amaury.forgeotdarc, davidfraser, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, eric.araujo, rpetrov, rschoon.old, WhiteTiger, BreamoreBoy, LRN
2010-11-13 13:04:49	lkcl	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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2010-11-13 13:04:47	lkcl	create