[Distutils] Plugins for the MANIFEST file

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:03, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But I will not work in flame-threads anymore on my side.
>
> Probably a good idea.
>
> The only thing I'm worried about is the fact that you are proposing
> both to remove and add things to distutils. Although backports will be
> available, how will this work? If I use a new version of distutils,
> and somebody uses 2.5 to install my package, how will he know how to
> fix the errors that appear?
>And how will my 2.6 package work under 2.7
> if you remove backwards compatibility?

I don't think we want to break any current feature in 2.7, we will
probably just display
deprecation warnings and keep them, then wait until the next python version.

And if someone want to use your package, that uses a new feature
that is not present in 2.5/2.6, he will need to install the backport.

Some good practice will be needed for package developers
for this (maybe a kind error message)

Tarek

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