[Distutils] Proposed patch: allowing unknown keywords

[Juergen Hermann]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:42:47 -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

>+1.  Fine idea!  The only caution is that a package may *need* those "f=
uture
>options" to install correctly -- but then that's up to the package's au=
thoer
>to keep straight.

To make that last task easier, can we also add a 

distutils.dist.Distribution.getSupportedOptions() -> list of strings

method? That would make the check read like so:

	from distutils.dist import Distribution
	assert hasattr(Distribution, "getSupportedOptions")
	assert "foo" in Distribution.getSupportedOptions()



Ciao, J=FCrgen

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