On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> If, as I hope, the answer to that is "yes", then I strongly support >> releasing a fixed setuptools instead of reverting the change to >> Python. > > Yes it does. Excellent, thanks. > The fix makes sure build_ext.get_ext_filename still works as it is > supposed > (just returning the extension of a filename depending on the > environment) under all versions, > > *and* continues to do extra work for the Setuptools internal needs > when > it is called by Setuptools itself on various places. > > It's two lines in Setuptools. > > But beware that a new Setuptools release might take a few months and > maybe will never happen. > That is why a suggested solution was to install Distribute, because it > addresses among other > bug fixes, this one. I think we have two other choices. 2) PJE releases a new version of setuptools that fixes this problem. 3) We (a.k.a. Tarek with our blessing) hijacks the setuptools name (e.g. on cheeseshop) and releases a new version I still hope #2 happens, but let's have a deadline for when the more drastic measures will be taken. -Barry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 832 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20091005/9caae0fd/attachment.pgp>
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