bpo-36797: Prune more legacy distutils documentation #13092
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@pganssle Reviewing @kojoidrissa's change in #13087 prompted me to make the markings on the rest of the legacy distutils docs a bit more emphatic in saying "This probably isn't the page you want to be looking at" |
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Hm, would it be worth it to move the Given that there's a URL in it, it might be worth it to have a canonical stub for this. |
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@pganssle Yeah, that would make a lot of sense. |
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| `New and changed setup.py arguments in setuptools <setuptools-setup-py>`_ | |||
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@ncoghlan This is a dead link to https://docs.python.org/3.8/distutils/setuptools-setup-py
See linkchecker output:
URL `setuptools-setup-py'
Name `New and changed setup.py arguments in setuptools'
Parent URL file:///builddir/build/BUILD/Python-3.8.0b4/Doc/build/html/distutils/apiref.html, line 106, col 5
Real URL file:///builddir/build/BUILD/Python-3.8.0b4/Doc/build/html/distutils/setuptools-setup-py
Check time 0.001 seconds
Result Error: URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/builddir/build/BUILD/Python-3.8.0b4/Doc/build/html/distutils/setuptools-setup-py'>
4 threads active, 0 links queued, 4445 links in 4449 URLs checked, runtime 1 minute, 46 seconds
Where is this actually supposed to lead to?
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| .. _setuptools-setup-py: https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#new-and-changed-setup-keywords |
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Oh I see, this should be the link. I'll prep a PR.
https://bugs.python.org/issue36797