[Python-Dev] Raising objections (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Apr 21 09:38:27 CEST 2006


"A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> writes:

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:53:55AM +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" quoted:

> It is flatly not possible to "fix" distutils and preserve backwards > compatibility. Would it be possible to figure what parts are problematic, and introduce PendingDeprecationWarnings or DeprecationWarnings so that we can fix things?

Broadly speaking, no.

Cheers, mwh (I've looked into the distutils source too, and have the claw marks on my soul to prove it)

-- I'm sorry, was my bias showing again? :-) -- William Tanksley, 13 May 2000



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