• [Python-announce] Announcement: distlib 0.3.9 released on PyPI

    From Vinay Sajip@vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk to comp.lang.python.announce on Thu Oct 10 14:50:38 2024
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    Version 0.3.9 of distlib has recently been released on PyPI [1]. For newcomers, distlib is a library of packaging functionality which is intended to be usable as the basis for third-party packaging tools.

    The main changes in this release are as follows:

    * Merge #215: Preload script wrappers on Windows to assist with a pip issue.

    * Fix #220: Remove duplicated newline in shebang of windows launcher.

    * Fix #222: Support mounting wheels that use extensions without an EXTENSIONS file.

    * Fix #224: Do not use the absolute path to cache wheel extensions.

    * Fix #225: Add support for wheel compatibility with the limited API.

    * Fix #230: Add handling for cross-compilation environments.

    A more detailed change log is available at [2].

    Please try it out, and if you find any problems or have any suggestions for improvements, please give some feedback using the issue tracker at [3].

    Regards,

    Vinay Sajip

    [1] https://pypi.org/project/distlib/0.3.9/
    [2] https://distlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#change-log-for-distlib
    [3] https://github.com/pypa/distlib/issues/new/choose
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