[Distutils] PEP 241 draft

[John J. Lee]

yOn Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Andrew Kuchling wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:59:00PM +0000, John J. Lee wrote:
> >probably for smaller collections, too.  I don't see why the keyword list
> >would have to be fixed between releases of Distutils -- can't it just be
> >in a standard place in the catalogue, as well as in Distutils?  Anything /
>
> Sorry; this isn't quite clear in the PEP.  The issue is just that, if
> we have a fixed list of keywords, the Distutils can't enforce this
> when you run 'setup.py sdist'; it couldn't warn you that 'asdfgh'
> isn't a legal keyword.  We could put a keyword list in the Distutils
> code, but as soon as we add another keyword, there's no way to make
> all the Python installations aware of this.  It's a minor point; the
> Distutils can't enforce this, so catalogs will have to.

Yeah, I see why it's a problem now, but I also agree that it's minor.
;-) I suppose Distutils could still usefully know about the list and give
warnings about keywords not in the local list.


John