On Oct 17, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@pov.lt> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 09:59:58AM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: >> On Oct 17, 2013, at 9:53 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Yes, but breaking these users' uploads is not the way to do that. >>> That's an incredibly user hostile step to take, and the problem >>> doesn't even come close to justifying breaking even a >>> not-really-working process (since you can work around the current >>> breakage by manually installing the dependencies - you can't work >>> around an inability to upload without making changes to your code). >>> >>> If you really wanted to push them towards fixing their releases, you >>> could always have PyPI send them an email saying something like: >> > ... >> >> This could be part of the deprecation process, but unless there's a plan >> in place to deprecate them I don't know how useful this email would be. >> It's a reactive warning to something that confuses people while they are >> creating a package. In other words by the time the email goes out they've >> already been confused. > > Is it possible to make 'python setup.py sdist upload' emit a warning > message about using these deprecated fields, without rejecting the > upload? I don't believe so (but don't quote me on that), besides the obvious of patching distutils. > > Marius Gedminas > -- > Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to execute a job? > A: Four; three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off. > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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