Greg Ward wrote:
... The way I see Distutils being extended is by people writing new command classes. Let's say LLNL wants to distribute a Python module with a (shudder) FORTRAN back-end, and Distutils doesn't support FORTRAN. (Sorry, not a lot of call for it.) The general idea, which I have not fully thought through, is that you would write a "BuildFortran" class, and include it with your code -- right there in setup.py if it's not too
You can also save yourself a lot of time by building something that seems reasonable and waiting for the feedback from people who need it and/or feel it is important. No sense in getting yourself all bound up and unmoving, just because you're trying to solve a 5% case. Build something for the 95% case and delegate the 5% to the people who care about it. Cheers, -Greg "Minimalist" Stein -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/