On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:51, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > For 2.7/3.2, I am in the process of removing modules in Distutils that > can be replaced by calls to existing functions in stdlib. For > instance, "dir_util" and "file_util" (old modules from the Python 1.x > era) are going away in favor of calls to shutil (and os), so the > Distutils package gets lighter. > > Another module I would like to move away from Distutils is > "archive_util". It contains helpers to build archives, whether they > are zip or tar files. I propose to move those useful functions into > shutil, as this seems the most logical place. > If it's archive-agnostic then shutil is probably the best place. > > I also propose to maintain this "shutil" module for now on (no one is > declared as a maintainer in maintainers.rst) since Distutils will > become a heavy user of its functions. > > Great! > Any objections/opinions ? > No objections from me. -Brett
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