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

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