[Python-Dev] PEP 376

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 15:34:01 CEST 2009


Right, the API part is almost empty,

http://docs.python.org/distutils/apiref.html

I'll complete it for the relevant part.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Paul Moore<p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/1 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:
>> One other thought. You haven't documented the DistributionMetaData class. The
>
> Just noticed that it's defined in distutils. But it's not documented there :-(
>
> Maybe just add a bit to the PEP saying that the class exists in
> distutils, give a brief summary, and say that as part of implimenting
> the PEP it will be formally documented. (Even though distutils is a
> mess of undocumented functionality, I don't think that you can base
> new work on undocumented internals - you should document them first,
> or things will never get any better :-()
>
> Paul.
>



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