Issue 5164: backport distutils 3.x changes into 2.7 when appliabl (original) (raw)

Created on 2009-02-06 09:06 by tarek, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (7)
msg81253 - (view)	Author: Tarek Ziadé (tarek) *	Date: 2009-02-06 09:06
It's annoying to get conflicts on changes in distutils in the trunk, when forward-porting to 3.x, because other changes where made there and only there. Things like PEP8-ification and modern syntax changes needs to be backported to 2.7 when appliable to reduce the gap.
msg81317 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2009-02-06 23:41
What specific changes do you have in mind?
msg81320 - (view)	Author: Tarek Ziadé (tarek) *	Date: 2009-02-06 23:51
PEP8 : - removing space between function names and () like: function () -> function() - function(arg1, arg2, arg3) becomes function(arg1, arg2, arg3) - remove the usage of string.translate, type(foo) is StringType etc..
msg81325 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2009-02-07 00:19
Hmm. Ok. I was hoping you could point to a revision number...
msg81401 - (view)	Author: Tarek Ziadé (tarek) *	Date: 2009-02-08 18:17
Unfortunately, these changes are most of the time made as small extra changes when people are working in distutils modules : they fix something, and in the same changeset, they fix a small PEP-8 issue in the area they are working on. So it seems hard to merge back the revisions. What I am doing now (if you think it's OK), is running a diff so my changes make the trunk look like Py3's one in this area..
msg81403 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2009-02-08 18:27
That's ok in principle, as long as you avoid committing behavioral changes along with style changes in the same change set.
msg87644 - (view)	Author: Tarek Ziadé (tarek) *	Date: 2009-05-12 17:19
I don't need a ticket for this I guess, it's done progressively