Message 386134 - Python tracker

Message386134

Author	vstinner
Recipients	bmwiedemann, dstufft, eric.araujo, mcepl, ronaldoussoren, vstinner
Date	2021-02-02.10:48:12
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> Why do we need to sort those extensions by name? Because calling sorted() is easy. Any other arbitrary choice would make sense. But giving the ability to build sources in a specific order, add dependencies, or something else, would a new features. Also, distutils is now deprecated in the stdlib: the steering council approved https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/ You should now report distutils issues to setuptools.

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> Why do we need to sort those extensions by name?

Because calling sorted() is easy. Any other arbitrary choice would make sense. But giving the ability to build sources in a specific order, add dependencies, or something else, would a new features.

Also, distutils is now deprecated in the stdlib: the steering council approved https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/

You should now report distutils issues to setuptools.

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