March 21, 2008
12:51 a.m.
At 12:58 AM 3/20/2008 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
A lot of setuptools warts are driven by related design problems in the distutils, such as the choice to use imperative / procedural code for everything
If a distutils replacement is ever written, I'd like to see it structured as a dependency graph, like a makefile, with each node in the graph knowing how to transform its inputs into its outputs. That would make it a lot easier to extend to accommodate new things like Pyrex. You'd just have to write a new node class that knows how to turn .pyx files into .c files, and the existing machinery would take it from there. -- Greg