Neil Schemenauer <nas-pyt...@arctrix.com> added the comment:

Don't be sorry.  We are all passionate about making Python better.  distutils 
will be better once we gets this sorted out.  Berker deserves credit for seeing 
an issue and developing on a fix for it.  The collaboration between all the 
core developers is making the final fix better than what any one of us could 
make.

The process is working quite well IMHO.  I had a small patch a few days ago 
that I was considering just committing without reviews.  I went through the 
review process though and the patch was better as a result of the review 
feedback I got.

The documentation says that the argument needs to be a list of strings or a 
string.  So, unless we change the documentation, a string must be accepted 
without warnings or errors.  The current PR works pretty well.  Figuring out 
how to best warn is the trickiest bit.  Sometimes it seems like 
DepreciationWarning doesn't work as we would like, since it often gets 
suppressed.  It seems pip is especially "good" at hiding it.

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