[issue8591] update mkpkg to latest coding standards
Dan Buch
report at bugs.python.org
Sat May 1 19:28:03 CEST 2010
Dan Buch <daniel.buch at gmail.com> added the comment:
I probably shouldn't have dropped the PEP8 bomb so much as stated that I feel the module could use some updating. It's my (very much potentially wrong) understanding that `distutils2.mkpkg` isn't considered library code so much as the guts of a script.
The reason for my concern about `distutils2.mkpkg` goes something like this:
- it is a new addition to the distutils toolkit
- if any kind of walkthrough is to be written for using
distutils, there's a good chance the `mkpkg` script will
be mentioned
- curious folks like myself may look at the source code for
the script
- said curious folks may either be new to Python or new to
programming in general
- I don't want newcomers getting the wrong idea about Python
coding standards
I should also mention that I have the same concern(s) about everything in the `Demo` tree of CPython :)
Even if `setup.py` files aren't the eventual goal, if they're around for even another 2 years I think the effort is justified. </2cents>
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