At 11:53 AM 10/5/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
2009/10/5 Jeff Rush <j...@taupro.com>:
> Very unfortunate, as in, it should NOT have happened. And *especially*
> without any announcement on python.org or mention on the
> python-committers list of something this major.
Well "this major"... It's a bug fix that breaks a setuptools monkey-patch.
Subclassing distutils commands != monkeypatching. If, say, numpy's
distutils extensions subclass build_ext and override that method,
they could have had the same problem. Same for anybody else's
distutils extensions.
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