[Distutils] MSVC7 directories

[Thomas Heller]

"Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> writes:

[Thomas]
>> If I understand Mark correctly, the MSVC 7 GUI doesn't pick up the
>> enviroment vars itself - this is (one of?) the difficultiy I see.
>
> Nope, this isn't a problem.  I have 2 specific problems:
>
> * Manually setting LIB/INCLUDE has no effect, as distutils overwrites these
> values with what it thinks they should be
> * MSVC7 doesn't seem to store its paths in the registry.
>
> MSVC7's GUI probably doesn't pick up the LIB/INCLUDE vars at startup time -
> but this is rarely an issue - the only time I expect to set or use these
> vars is when running from the command-line (which is exactly where distutils
> is run from :)
>
> I think there is a simple fix to keep most people happy.  distutils can just
> *append* the existing env var value to the new value.  I think it is
> acceptable to say distutils wont let you set these to change the location of
> standard libraries or headers, but will let you add new ones.

So there's no need to read the entries set in MSVC7 itself (for which
you have uploaded a patch) ?

Thomas