Paul Moore added the comment:
I agree with Steve, we shouldn't be constrained to preserve all the
undocumented internals of distutils - doing that in the past is what has made
distutils essentially unmaintainable.
I don't think there's a concrete example of real code that will be broken by
this change - if I follow the comments correctly, MAL's code will still work
("I guess we'll then just continue to override the .initialize() call").
Without a specific breakage that can't be fixed to work with the new code, I
don't think this patch should be blocked just because people might be using the
old internals.
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