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Author pitrou
Recipients alexis, eric.araujo, flox, francismb, higery, jlove, michael.mulich, nadeem.vawda, paul.moore, pitrou, python-dev, rpetrov, tarek, vinay.sajip, westley.martinez
Date 2011-11-12.14:42:46
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> Antoine, I appreciate that you took time to fix this bug while I was
> without Internet and without Windows, but unfortunately I will have to
> backout your commit.  Postel’s Law doesn’t win here: It is documented
> that the MANIFEST template only accepts /-delimited paths,

“Just like in the setup script, file and directory names in the manifest
template should always be slash-separated”

That's "should", not "must".
Also, I thought people did undocumented things with distutils, and we
had to support these undocumented uses?

> In the future, please feel free to add unittest.expectedFailure
> decorators to problematic tests when I’m too long to come up with a
> fix, so that other people can see when their commits add problems.

I don't see how adding "expected failures" solves anything. It's not
clear why this failure should have been expected, rather than a bug.
A "commit adding problem" should be fixed or reverted; marking some
failures expected is just dodging the issue.
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2011-11-12 14:42:47pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, paul.moore, vinay.sajip, nadeem.vawda, tarek, eric.araujo, rpetrov, flox, alexis, michael.mulich, westley.martinez, python-dev, jlove, higery, francismb
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