distutils documentation says Extension has "optional" argument

[tebeka]

BPO	13865
Nosy	@tebeka, @merwok

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[tebeka]

The Extension documentation says:

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2.3.5. Other options
There are still some other options which can be used to handle special cases.

The optional option is a boolean; if it is true, a build failure in the extension will not abort the build process, but instead simply not install the failing extension.
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However there not such option, and distutils will complain:

/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/extension.py:133: UserWarning: Unknown Extension options: 'optional'

[merwok]

It was me who ported that doc change from 3.2, but distutils in 2.7 does not provide that feature. Thanks for catching it, I’ll revert the commit when I get the chance.

[python-dev]

New changeset cf1c466ee9e0 by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7':
distutils 2.7’s Extension does not support optional (bpo-13865).
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cf1c466ee9e0

[merwok]

Fixed, cheers!