[Distutils] Proposed patch: allowing unknown keywords

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:40 pm, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> I'd like to check in the following patch; it causes unknown keywords
> in the setup() invocation to trigger a warning instead of an
> exception.  This will make it possible to add more metadata arguments
> to setup() in future versions while still letting packages be
> installed with Distutils versions lacking the added arguments.
>
> Any objections?  Should it be backported to Python 2.2?

No objections, yes to 2.2 please :)


    Richard