<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Nathaniel Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:njs@pobox.com" target="_blank">njs@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr">> Having the `has_flag` in a different location from `has_function` would be weird in my opinion.</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">I think the point though is that in your proposal, has_flag is in distutils 3.6, but has_function is in distutils 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6. So they're still in different places in practice, and if your new feature is only in distutils 3.6 then almost no one will be able to use it within the next 3+ years. Otoh putting it in setuptools makes it uniformly usable for everyone immediately.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">-n</p>
</font></span></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>With this reasoning, nothing should ever be added to the standard library.</div></div>