Python 2.6 has arrived - now what?
by
Michael Haubenwallner
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last modified
Jun 26, 2010 10:33 PM
Strange things happen along the recent release of Python 2.6
- setuptools is not available as a py2.6 egg
(http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/) - virtualenv installation is broken (it depends on installing the setuptools egg from PyPI)
- paster (PasteScript) is broken because of a change in the 're' library
These problems should have been obvious for at least 6 months now. Why are people reluctant to port to Python 2.6? Is this the fork effect of 3.0 already?
Update: one day later we've got setuptools as an egg for 2.6, virtualenv has been updated too in the trunk (easy_install virtualenv==dev) and a patch to PasteScript is waiting to be included in the trunk.
