[Distutils] Has anyone looked at bug 29225?

[Brett Cannon]

Oh, over the 26 years of Python's lifetime you would be surprised what
people come to rely on (including broken semantics which they have written
fixes for themselves which then break when a proper fix is introduced).

On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 at 10:01 Elvis Stansvik <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com>
wrote:

> 2017-01-19 18:52 GMT+01:00 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:
>
> It's probably a combination of people being busy and the fact that it
> involves distutils which not very many people feel comfortable reviewing
> patches for and changing its semantics.
>
>
> Alright, that's understandable and sort of what I suspected.
>
> I hope (and believe) my patch preserves the semantics for all cases except
> the specific one it fixes. The wrong behavior which it fixes is so
> obviously wrong that I can't imagine someone relying on it somehow :)
>
> Elvis
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> Regardless of what happens to your patch, though, thanks for taking the
> time to report the problem you ran into and trying to fix it!
>
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 at 23:21 Elvis Stansvik <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi distutils folks,
>
> Just wanted to ask if anyone has had time to look at my
>
>     http://bugs.python.org/issue29225
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> ? It's my first bug report _and_ first patch for Python, so it's quite
> possible I screwed something up. Or people are just busy :)
>
> Cheers,
> Elvis
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