Mark Hammond wrote:
Not sure what you mean here? I did find it strange that I could not setup the compiler as I would for any other project on the planet (ie, vie the env vars that the compiler itself supports), but that was pronounced to be a feature of distutils, so I dropped it.
Let's not drop it. When I asked about this feature years ago, I dropped it because people told me that real Windows users would never want this feature. Presumably that only reason I was asking was that I was a wayward Unix developer in Windows land. You, on the other hand, can make some claim to being a real Windows user. A patch to honor environment variables when they are set would help developers and, presumably, hurt no one. (No real Windows user would set an environment variable anyway.) Jeremy