[issue9841] sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig differ in subtle ways

Éric Araujo added the comment: By “d2/sysconfig” I meant d2._backport.sysconfig. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue9841] sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig differ in subtle ways

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Not in distutils2 because we want to get rid of it, thats the whole point. distutils2 will use the sysconfig module I've extracted from distutils. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue9841] sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig differ in subtle ways

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[issue9841] sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig differ in subtle ways

Éric Araujo added the comment: I understand. This means that sysconfig fixes will have to be ported to distutils.sysconfig and d2/sysconfig. -- stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue9841] sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig differ in subtle ways

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: That's what I wanted to do first but it turned out to be a bad idea. This duplication is unfortunate but the freeze is also to prevent third party code that patches distutils to break. For instance, there's a lot of code out there that just patches distutils.sy

[issue9841] sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig differ in subtle ways

New submission from Éric Araujo : With the recent distutils revert, code that was removed from distutils.sysconfig is now back. This causes an unfortunate code duplication that raises maintenance cost (see msg116087 for an example). Even if distutils is feature-frozen, I think that it should