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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/command/install.py | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 3 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index 6ef82d4..e560fba 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -782,6 +782,12 @@ Deprecated features now deprecated. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`25791` and :issue:`26754`.) +* The undocumented ``extra_path`` argument to a distutils Distribution + is now considered + deprecated, will raise a warning during install if set. Support for this + parameter will be dropped in a future Python release and likely earlier + through third party tools. See :issue:`27919` for details. + Deprecated Python behavior -------------------------- diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py index fca05d6..0258d3de 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ class install(Command): self.compile = None self.optimize = None + # Deprecated # These two are for putting non-packagized distributions into their # own directory and creating a .pth file if it makes sense. # 'extra_path' comes from the setup file; 'install_path_file' can @@ -344,6 +345,7 @@ class install(Command): 'scripts', 'data', 'headers', 'userbase', 'usersite') + # Deprecated # Well, we're not actually fully completely finalized yet: we still # have to deal with 'extra_path', which is the hack for allowing # non-packagized module distributions (hello, Numerical Python!) to @@ -490,6 +492,10 @@ class install(Command): self.extra_path = self.distribution.extra_path if self.extra_path is not None: + log.warn( + "Distribution option extra_path is deprecated. " + "See issue27919 for details." + ) if isinstance(self.extra_path, str): self.extra_path = self.extra_path.split(',') @@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #27919: Deprecated ``extra_path`` distribution option in distutils + packaging. + - Issue #23229: Add new ``cmath`` constants: ``cmath.inf`` and ``cmath.nan`` to match ``math.inf`` and ``math.nan``, and also ``cmath.infj`` and ``cmath.nanj`` to match the format used by complex repr. |