[Distutils] RFC: Updating PEP 345

[Jim Fulton]

On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:

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> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
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>>> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>>> I don't think it's a good idea to have a different name in PKG-INFO
>>>> and in the arguments to describe
>>>> the same element. we should have the same name everywhere for
>>>> consistency at the end.
>>>> I don't see anything wrong about adding a simple deprecation  
>>>> warning
>>>> here, It won't happen again
>>>> for quite a while.
>>>> Distutils already had some argument name changes like that for
>>>> backward compatiblity (licence<->license) but they were not
>>>> displaying any warning.
>>> What would be the problem with having both sets work and not
>>> deprecate either? (ie: make them synonyms of each other?)
>>
>>
>> It violates toowtdi.
>
> BBB concerns often trump TOOWTDI.


Sure, but there's no BBB concern here -- unless we create one.

Jim

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