Update register example
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
index d569333..55a578d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -726,18 +726,25 @@
\function{setup()} function. A list of
\citetitle[http://www.tuxedo.org/\%7Eesr/trove/]{Trove}-style strings can be supplied to help classify the software.
-Here's an example \file{setup.py} with classifiers:
+Here's an example \file{setup.py} with classifiers, written to be compatible
+with older versions of the Distutils:
\begin{verbatim}
-setup (name = "Quixote",
- version = "0.5.1",
- description = "A highly Pythonic Web application framework",
- ...
- classifiers= ['Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content',
- 'Environment :: No Input/Output (Daemon)',
- 'Intended Audience :: Developers'],
+from distutils import core
+kw = ('name': "Quixote",
+ 'version': "0.5.1",
+ 'description': "A highly Pythonic Web application framework",
...
)
+
+if (hasattr(core, 'setup_keywords') and
+ 'classifiers' in core.setup_keywords):
+ kw['classifiers'] = \
+ ['Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content',
+ 'Environment :: No Input/Output (Daemon)',
+ 'Intended Audience :: Developers'],
+
+core.setup (**kw)
\end{verbatim}
The full list of classifiers can be obtained by running
@@ -1279,8 +1286,7 @@
it now checks for the \envvar{CC}, \envvar{CFLAGS}, \envvar{CPP},
\envvar{LDFLAGS}, and \envvar{CPPFLAGS} environment variables, using
them to override the settings in Python's configuration (contributed
-by Robert Weber); the \function{get_distutils_options()} method lists
-recently-added extensions to Distutils.
+by Robert Weber).
\item The \module{getopt} module gained a new function,
\function{gnu_getopt()}, that supports the same arguments as the existing