[Distutils] RFC: Updating PEP 345

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Sat Apr 11 14:20:25 CEST 2009


Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> I don't think it's a good idea to have a different name in PKG-INFO
> and in the arguments to describe
> the same element. we should have the same name everywhere for
> consistency at the end.
> 
> I don't see anything wrong about adding a simple deprecation warning
> here, It won't happen again
> for quite a while.
> 
> Distutils already had some argument name changes like that for
> backward compatiblity (licence<->license) but they were not
> displaying any warning.

What would be the problem with having both sets work and not deprecate 
either? (ie: make them synonyms of each other?)

cheers,

Chris

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