Russell E. Owen schrieb: > A colleague stumbled across distutils bug/misfeature that he found had > been reported with an associated patch: > <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1183712&group_i > d=5470&atid=305470> > > and I'm wondering if there's any plans to accept the patch or implement > some other fix (such as raising an exception if one tries to use a blank > package name). The current behavior is clearly unexpected and confusing. > If there's something I can do to help get a fix of some kind into python > 2.5, I'm happy to do it.
As you can see from my comment, I think it really is a bug in the application. Without reviewing it again, I think disallowing empty package names might be the right thing; this can only be done in 2.6, though. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
