Re: [Python-Dev] Removal of install_misc command from distutils

2018-07-07 Thread Paul Moore
On 7 July 2018 at 01:25, Ned Deily wrote: > On Jul 6, 2018, at 19:43, Alexander Belopolsky > wrote: >> I think it will be prudent to get this command back in Python 3.7.1. My >> work-around was to simply copy the 20-something lines that define >> install_misc from Python 3.6 to my setup.py

Re: [Python-Dev] Removal of install_misc command from distutils

2018-07-06 Thread Ned Deily
On Jul 6, 2018, at 19:43, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > Honestly, I did not realize that 3.7 has been released by the time I wrote my > e-mail. So I guess I didn't send out enough notices since January about each of the 5 betas and the release candidate begging everyone to test with the 3.7

Re: [Python-Dev] Removal of install_misc command from distutils

2018-07-06 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Honestly, I did not realize that 3.7 has been released by the time I wrote my e-mail. I think it will be prudent to get this command back in Python 3.7.1. My work-around was to simply copy the 20-something lines that define install_misc from Python 3.6 to my setup.py file. It was my impression

Re: [Python-Dev] Removal of install_misc command from distutils

2018-07-06 Thread Victor Stinner
Hello, I am not sure of what you propose. Do you want to get the feature back in Python 3.7.1? If yes, should it start to emit a deprection warning? Did you manage to workaround the removal? If yes, maybe we can add more doc to the Porting section of What's New in Python 3.7? Victor Le jeudi 5

Re: [Python-Dev] Removal of install_misc command from distutils

2018-07-06 Thread Brett Cannon
For referencing, the commit was https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ef158c3ced3fce39e43f54e8d149dc2714e3456e#diff-ef2e84716aa6196aa0ebf0691e608986 and the issue was https://bugs.python.org/issue29218 . On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 at 11:27 Alexander Belopolsky < alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Python-Dev] Removal of install_misc command from distutils

2018-07-05 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
I started porting my project [1] to Python 3.7 and came across bpo-29218: "The unused distutils install_misc command has been removed." [2] Historically, the distutils package was very conservative about changes because many 3rd party packages extended it in ways unforeseen by the Python core