[Python-checkins] r77756 - in python/trunk/Lib/distutils: command/bdist_msi.py tests/test_bdist_msi.py

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:12 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tarek,
>>
>> I noticed that you have removed get_platform from the distutils.util
>> module. This will break a lot of setup.py code out there.
>>
>> Please add a
>>
>>        from sysconfig import get_platform
>>
>> to the distutils.util module to restore compatibility.
>>
>> Also note that a lot of setup.py code does monkey patching of
>> get_platform() to fix certain inefficiencies of its implementation,
>> so I'm not sure whether changing the distutils imports to load
>> it directly from sysconfig will really do good.
> 
> That's one of the reason why I kept the API and I've added a
> deprecation warning at first, but then you suggested in python-dev
> that I should remove them and just document the fact that the API was
> relocated.

Are you sure that was me ?

> I can put it back like I've first did it

Yes, please.

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