From 765e94f80c753cfeb077d8a372483aff4d8f178f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=89ric=20Araujo?= Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:26:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add NEWS and whatsnew entries for the packaging module --- Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ Misc/NEWS | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index a2d3af17228..e1d1cb4b3cd 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -129,6 +129,19 @@ os (Patch submitted by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`10784`.) +packaging +--------- + +:mod:`distutils` has undergone additions and refactoring under a new name, +:mod:`packaging`, to allow developers to break backward compatibility. +:mod:`distutils` is still provided in the standard library, but users are +encouraged to transition to :mod:`packaging`. For older versions of Python, a +backport compatible with 2.4+ and 3.1+ will be made available on PyPI under the +name :mod:`distutils2`. + +.. TODO add examples and howto to the packaging docs and link to them + + pydoc ----- diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index db9bd000ac3..e277eb941b1 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Core and Builtins - Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath(). -- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial integer and hex revision. +- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial hex revision. - Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin @@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ Library - Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore to be able to unload the module. +- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as + distutils2). + - Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).