Hi Ralf, On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On python-dev and in the bug tracker, Sylvain has understandably asked >> for a review with an eye to adding this new feature to Python 3.6 whose >> feature code cutoff is scheduled for a few weeks from now. As release >> manager, I am not opposed in general to adding new features to Distutils >> but I think we should be very cautious about modifying or adding new >> Distutils APIs, given that many third-party distribution authors want to >> support their packages on multiple versions. So I want to make sure that >> there is some agreement that adding this new API starting with 3.6 is a >> good thing to do rather than having it go in under the radar. > > > I'd rather see that kind of thing added to setuptools. We're already > having to deal with setuptools as a moving target, so if distutils becomes > one again as well that means more testing with combinations of different > Python and setuptools versions. Imho distutils changes should be bugfix and > essential maintenance only. > > Having the `has_flag` in a different location from `has_function` would be weird in my opinion. Sylvain
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