Re: [Distutils] static linking in distutils/setuptools?

Bob Ippolito wrote:

While I don't agree with a lot of the design decisions in distutils, it's plenty extensible. You can plug your own Extension in, just subclass it.

I disagree. An 'Extension' is "Just a collection of attributes that describes an extension module and everything needed to build it..." (to cite the Extension's own doc string). There is no encapsulation of behavior (i.e. how to build it), as that is handled in separate command classes. And this is why I provided my own build_ext class, which, however, didn't use anything from the 'Extension' type, since that isn't adequate for my needs. Regards, Stefan