[Python-Dev] setup.py deleting files (Was: SSL support in _socket)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "MvL" == Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

    MvL> I now recall why setup.py deletes modules that cannot be
    MvL> imported: If they would be left there, the test cases would
    MvL> fail with the ImportError. People had been complaining that
    MvL> they get testsuite failures, so we changed setup.py to remove
    MvL> the modules which clearly don't work.

Can we just rename them?  I.e. bsddbmodule-failed.so

That would at least leave some artifact around so that the problem has
a chance of being debugged.

-Barry