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Author eric.araujo
Recipients BreamoreBoy, eric.araujo, jafo, jkankiewicz, loewis, rhettinger, rickharris, sanxiyn, tarek
Date 2010-08-21.19:18:49
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I’m in favor of committing the patch. I don’t like that it has no tests, but in this case I guess we have to rely on the documentation and just trust it will do the Right Thing™.

Re: compatibility, the reason is that people want to use distutils from a given stable version to package or install projects with older Pythons.
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Date User Action Args
2010-08-21 19:18:51eric.araujosetrecipients: + eric.araujo, loewis, rhettinger, jafo, sanxiyn, rickharris, tarek, jkankiewicz, BreamoreBoy
2010-08-21 19:18:50eric.araujosetmessageid: <1282418330.99.0.212229627405.issue1254718@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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