Issue #27919: Deprecate extra_path option in distutils.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
index fca05d6..0258d3de 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
self.compile = None
self.optimize = None
+ # Deprecated
# These two are for putting non-packagized distributions into their
# own directory and creating a .pth file if it makes sense.
# 'extra_path' comes from the setup file; 'install_path_file' can
@@ -344,6 +345,7 @@
'scripts', 'data', 'headers',
'userbase', 'usersite')
+ # Deprecated
# Well, we're not actually fully completely finalized yet: we still
# have to deal with 'extra_path', which is the hack for allowing
# non-packagized module distributions (hello, Numerical Python!) to
@@ -490,6 +492,10 @@
self.extra_path = self.distribution.extra_path
if self.extra_path is not None:
+ log.warn(
+ "Distribution option extra_path is deprecated. "
+ "See issue27919 for details."
+ )
if isinstance(self.extra_path, str):
self.extra_path = self.extra_path.split(',')