Announcement: distlib 0.3.8 released on PyPI

Vinay Sajip via Python-list <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:35:26 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.general,gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Version 0.3.8 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:

* Fix #204: use symlinks in venv creation during test.

* Fix #208: handle deprecation removals in Python 3.13.

* Fix #209: use legacy version implementation for Python versions.

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/0.3.8/
[2] https://distlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#change-log-for-distlib
[3] https://github.com/pypa/distlib/issues/new/choose