[Python-Dev] distutils patch

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Russell E. Owen schrieb:
> A colleague stumbled across distutils bug/misfeature that he found had 
> been reported with an associated patch:
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1183712&group_i
> d=5470&atid=305470>
> 
> and I'm wondering if there's any plans to accept the patch or implement 
> some other fix (such as raising an exception if one tries to use a blank 
> package name). The current behavior is clearly unexpected and confusing. 
> If there's something I can do to help get a fix of some kind into python 
> 2.5, I'm happy to do it.

As you can see from my comment, I think it really is a bug in the
application. Without reviewing it again, I think disallowing empty
package names might be the right thing; this can only be done in 2.6,
though.

Regards,
Martin