A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> The 2.1 requirement was originally imposed because Greg Ward would
> make standalone Distutil releases. Greg is too busy working at his
> job, going camping on weekends, and being best man [1] to make new
> releases these days.
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From: Greg Ward
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:33:30AM +0100, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Unfortunately, this is mixed in with some stuff that isn't part of
> distutils' "core competency", like text utilities, process spawning,
> and option parsing. These should (eventually, when the 2.1
> compatibility requirement is l
