[Python-Dev] Dodgy code in distutils/sysconfig.py

[Jack Jansen]

On woensdag, juli 10, 2002, at 11:56 , Michael Hudson wrote:
>> This won't work for one of the standard use cases: having multiple
>> "build" subdirectories of the source directory (where you build for
>> different platforms or some such).
>
> How so?  It worked for my cron jobs last night, which build in this
> fashion.

You're right, of course. I was confusing this with the sys.path 
initialization code.
I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with your solution.
>
>> And on the other question: as of a week ago setup.py is also 
>> being used
>> to build at least some of the MacPython extension modules.
>
> Is this MacPython as built by CodeWarrior?  I'm counting MacOS X as
> unix when it's convenient to do so :)

Correct. Over on the pythonmac-sig the use of "MacPython" is 
(for the time being) reserved to mean the CodeWarrior-built 
Python that will also run on OS9. MachoPython is used for the 
OSX-only unix Python.

And, as I said (or try to say:-), "don't worry about MacPython 
builds, they'll continue to work.
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