On 01 December 2000, Thomas Heller said:
Distutils currently only supports build_*** commands for C-libraries and Python extensions.
Shouldn't there also be build commands for shared libraries, executable programs and static Python binaries?
Andrew and I talked about this a bit yesterday, and the proposed interface is as follows:
python setup.py build_ext --static
will compile all extensions in the current module distribution, but instead of creating a .so (.pyd) file for each one, will create a new python binary in build/bin.<plat>.
Issue to be resolved: what to call the new python binary, especially when installing it (presumably we *don't* want to clobber the stock binary, but supplement it with (eg.) "foopython").
Note that there is no provision for selectively building some extensions as shared. This means that Andrew's Distutil-ization of the standard library will have to override the build_ext command and have some extra way to select extensions for shared/static. Neither of us considered this a problem.
BTW: Distutils-sig seems pretty dead these days...
Yeah, that's a combination of me playing on other things and python.net email being dead for over a week. I'll cc the sig on this and see if this interface proposal gets anyone's attention.
Greg