Paul Ganssle <p.gans...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Donald made an interesting suggestion over on > https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/127#issuecomment-374401331, > which was to have distutils stop overwriting the Author metadata with the > Maintainer metadata when both are specified and instead emit a warning about > an unknown keyword argument.
To be honest, that would not have helped in this situation. I didn't encounter this bug in distutils, I encountered it in setuptools, and I tried fixing it in both places because the comments on issue 962772 indicated that this *should* have been supported in distutils. In the end I think it's fair to either freeze the distutils API and add a DeprecationWarning to indicate that this is no longer supported and everyone should move to setuptools or modernize it completely. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33069> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
