Quoth Oliver Andrich, on 04 February 1999:
[I dismiss dealing with dependencies on non-Python stuff]
Hm.. this is something I would have expected that distutils include. I have seen distutils a little bit like autoconf or so for Python in Python. Not as powerful, but with some basic features of autoconf. Cause this is information the developer can easily provide. But if this is possible to implement is the other question.
There are some possible partial solutions: list C libraries that this module depends on, and if a test program compiles and links, it's there. Ditto for header files. But testing versions? Things more complicated than normal C libraries? You'd need a way for developers to supply chunks of test C code, just the way autoconf does it... ugh... Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@cnri.reston.va.us Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive voice: +1-703-620-8990 x287 Reston, Virginia, USA 20191-5434 fax: +1-703-620-0913