[Python-Dev] Distutils frozen? (original) (raw)

Ryan Gonzalez rymg19 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 13:32:09 EDT 2017

So, I had opened up a PR (#563) to add README.rst to the distutils readme list. Turns out, I didn't read the devguide correctly, and there needed to be an open issue first. Oops.

Then I found bpo-11913 (https://bugs.python.org/issue11913), which said:

This would be easy to fix, but as it would be considered a new feature, it can’t go into distutils, which is frozen.

I interpreted this as being "frozen to new features"...but I can't find any info about that. Anywhere. The devguide doesn't even remotely mention this. A Google search only gives me information on how to freeze modules using distutils, which is hardly helpful. FWIW, no one on the PR seemed to mention that, either.

If distutils is indeed frozen, shouldn't it be documented somewhere in the devguide?

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