Ned Deily <n...@python.org> added the comment:
I don't have an opinion about the bulk of the proposed change. But, since _osx_support was mentioned as a model for an _aix_support, I wanted to comment on the history of _osx_support. _osx_support was created as a separate module back when the distutils2 (aka packaging) project was active and it appeared that, at least for some number of releases, both distutils and distutils2 would have to co-exist in the cpython source repo. So, rather than duplicating the macOS code - most of which had been added on to distutils piecemeal over the years - in both places, we ripped out the existing code from distutils and put it into the new _osx_support module for use by both. In the end, though, a different direction for distutils was chosen and the distutils2/packaging project code was removed from cpython prior to a formal release. If we were doing it today, there probably would be no reason to have a separate _osx_support module as nearly all of the code is only called from one place. Th us, I would not use its existence as a justification for having a separate _aix_support module. ---------- nosy: +ned.deily _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38021> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
