[Distutils] Changes in r72585

[Tarek Ziadé]

By the way,

Do you happen to have a pywin32 buildbot that could run on the python
trunk ? (where I can get emails when it's broken)

That would be useful because I am doing a lot of work in the trunk.

Tarek


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim, thanks for the feedback,
>
> this has been fixed in r72758
>
> http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py?r1=72593&r2=72758
>
> Regards
> Tarek
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>> [coming from a thread on python-win32:
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2009-May/009130.html
>> ]
>>
>> In short: changes to build_ext.py in r72585 caused the pywin32
>> packages to stop building correctly. The changes in question
>> are those which call get_ext_filename with the short form of
>> the ext.name (without the package prefix). The pywin32 setup.py
>> expects the fully-qualified name in the get_ext_filename in
>> its subclass.
>>
>> Now I don't know whether this is an incautious change to build_ext
>> or a false -- altho' historically valid -- assumption on the part
>> of the pywin32 developers. You can see their code here at line 1119:
>>
>> http://pywin32.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pywin32/pywin32/setup.py?revision=1.107&view=markup
>>
>> I'm afraid I'm fairly ignorant of the design rationale behind
>> distutils; I'm hoping someone here has a better idea :)
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>> TJG
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>
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