GeezerVison

A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> * There's no standalone distutils package on PyPI, nor can I find
>   such a package with a general web search.  Am I missing it?
> 
> * I do not see users advising other users to use a later version of 
>   Distutils to fix their problems.
> 
> Is anyone actually benefiting from the effort of maintaining backward
> compatibility?

I remember this discussion coming up before the 2.5 release when the 
distutils version number was changed to depend on the python instance 
instead of a static string. MAL was made very upset that the SVN trunk 
version of distutils could no longer be pulled out seperately. But at 
that time, you had removed it from PEP 291, officially renouncing this 
practice. I believe the conclusion was that MAL's request to maintain 
psuedo-backward-compatibility would be upheld despite not having 
official status.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-August/068250.html

-Scott

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