This method was named reinitialize_command in distutils and accompanied
by a comment suggesting to change it to get_reinitialized_command.
Following that, I did the change for distutils2, but it proved
confusing: The Distribution object has an internal cache of command
objects, to make sure only one instance is ever used, and the name
get_reinitialized_command could suggest that the object returned was
independent of that cache, which it was not. I’m reverting the name
change to make code clearer.
- minor cleanup in Metadata
- trigger creation of the sysconfig._CONFIG_VARS dict
- home_page is used over home-page: it’s not a compound word, it’s an
escaped space
Distutils2 is now synchronized with Packaging.
There was already a test for this, but it was complicated and had a
subtle bug (custom command objects need to be put in dist.command_obj so
that other command objects may see them) that rendered it moot.
Packaging uses the shutil.make_archive function copied from distutils,
which does not support compress. There is no test to check that
“bdist --format whatever” works, so this slipped by.