New submission from Antoine Pitrou:
I just noticed that access to the normal distutils docs has become difficult.
They are hidden as legacy while a link to the packaging user guide
(https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/) is prominently displayed.
The problem is that the packaging user guide
Nick Coghlan added the comment:
The old distutils docs are actively wrong in some areas, which is why they have
been moved from their previous location.
They can't be deleted yet because they contain info that needs to be moved to
either the distutils module docs, the setuptools docs, or the
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
The old distutils docs are actively wrong in some areas
Yet they are actively useful in others.
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resolution: rejected -
status: closed - open
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Nick Coghlan added the comment:
For reference, issue #19407 covered the PEP 453 docs updates.
I tried fixing them in place, and judged it utterly impractical to do so -
moving them out of the way, but keeping them available (including via existing
deep links) was the resulting compromise.
If
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
Ok, can you stop closing this issue?
I tried fixing them in place, and judged it utterly impractical to do so
Why?
If you're prepared to help extract the needed data, great, but putting them
back where they were is *not* going to happen.
Why?
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Nick Coghlan added the comment:
No, I won't stop closing this issue, because reverting to advertising the
legacy installation and distribution docs through a top level docs home page
link is *never going to happen* (although I'll note again that direct links
into the legacy docs have been
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
Surely, if you think you are right, you can still wait for the discussion to
happen without aggressively trying to shut it down.
Besides, you are not the docs dictator, nor the distutils maintainer. We are a
community, this isn't your private territory.
If
