David Cournapeau wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> They don't have bearing on talking about >> redesigning how to design a new architecture that's easy to extend. >> > > Those examples show why extending distutils commands with subclassing + > post processing is not always enough. I don't understand why they would > not be relevant for the design to improve distutils extensibility. They > are quite typical of the usual problems I have when I need to extend > distutils myself. > +1 to this argument :-)
subclassing is a bad way to implement extensibility for essentially imperative tasks. I was just saying that the fact that distutils commands being used from paver having bugs does not invalidate paver's design of having functions be the task unit to build upon. -Toshio
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