-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Fulton wrote: > On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Chris Withers wrote: > >> 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. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ4Ny9+gerLs4ltQ4RArIhAJ0YVl/MHK/MJENRd/aF2LcN/x5O3QCgppbL rfhjfh+M5DRRgAFdRBoOa0M= =X6S7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
