This fixes a regression from distutils, where “setup.py --help-commands”
prints out commands grouped by topic (i.e. building vs. installing),
which is more useful than using sorted.
Running with regrtest does not show spurious output or unrestored
sys.std* objects; sometimes running with make test is different, I’ll
watch the buildbots.
In addition, update the create module to use logging.
New tests were added in test_metadata and old tests inherited from
distutils were still in test_dist, so I moved them into test_metadata
(except for one which was more at home in test_run) and merged
duplicates.
I also added some skips to lure contributors <wink>, optimized the
Metadata.update method a trifle, and added notes about a number of
issues.
A note: The tests in test_dist used to dump the Metadata objects to a
file in the METADATA format and look for strings in its contents; I
updated them to use the mapping API of Metadata instead. For some
fields with special writing rules, I have added tests to ensure my
conversion did not lose anything.
Éric Araujo
Tarek Ziade