Steve Dower added the comment:
Yep, unless this directly impacts normal distutils usage, it's not going to be
fixed (regardless of the formal deprecation proposal, we already have a policy
of minimizing changes to distutils).
You could submit a patch to Bugzilla to switch them to shutil.whic
Eryk Sun added the comment:
The existing behavior of find_executable() is unusual compared to a native
Windows file search via CreateProcessW or SearchPathW, for which a default
".exe" extension is appended only if the executable name doesn't already have
an extension. (CreateProcessW suppor
Alexander Todorov added the comment:
@Eryk Sun,
you are of course correct but still don't we need to handle this in Python?
- find_executable() will search for rst2man.py.exe which doesn't exist so no
good for the user
- there is also no rst2man.exe which is probably an issue with how docuti
Eryk Sun added the comment:
The linked code runs subprocess.check_output([rstbin, path]), which won't work
with "rst2man.py" in Windows. Reliably running a .py script in Windows requires
running it explicitly via py[w].exe or python[w].exe, or via sys.executable
from an existing Python proce
New submission from Alexander Todorov :
As part of installing python-bugzilla via pip it searches for `rst2man` or
`rst2man.py`, see:
https://github.com/python-bugzilla/python-bugzilla/blob/master/setup.py#L81
on Windows venvs there is venv\Scripts\rst2man.py (no .exe or without suffix)
and w
