On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Andrew M. Kuchling wrote:
David Ascher writes:
The hard thing will probably be to support all of the things which Windows developers expect, such as the ability to have Debug and Release builds (and CE builds, and ...).
Is it really necessary for people to develop their code using Distutils, as opposed to developing in their preferred environment and then wrapping things up for distribution? If I was debugging a C module, I don't think I'd bother compiling it through the distutils; more likely I'd just write a Makefile.pre.in and Setup.in.
I doubt it's *necessary* but I agree with the sentiment that if you're going to be setting up the set of relationships between files, it'd be *nice* to be able to do it just once and have it work for both development & distribution. If you want to write code which is being developed on two operating systems at once, it can get tedious to maintain both the Makefile & project files. I do agree that this is fairly minor in the grand scheme of things, and if I were in charge, I'd put it off until 1.1 =). --david