[Distutils] People want CPAN

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:08 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>> $ python setup.py --prefix=foo cmd1 cmd1 etc
>>
>> and the result would be in Distribution.options = {'path1': xxx, 'path2': xx}
>
> This is a major change in distutils behavior, so we need to solve the
> following issues:
>  - every user will have to change how to call distutils
>  - what happens if people still use python setup.py install
> --option1=foo instead of python setup.py --prefix=option1 install

A deprecation warning would be added in install, if it finds a local
option, rather
than a global. Meaning both would work in 2.7/3.2.

That would give them 18 to 24 months * 2 to go with the new style.

Tarek